on edge - Story 96737 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, cluttered workshop, usually a source of calm for David, now felt like a cage. Sawdust and metal shavings lay scattered everywhere, but he couldn't bring himself to pick up a tool. The news hung in the air, thick and oppressive.

He ran a hand through his hair, leaving streaks of grease on his face. The air in his lungs felt tight, restricted. He walked back and forth, unable to settle. Every familiar object, every unfinished project, felt like a painful reminder of the life he was about to lose.

He went to the window and looked out. The streets were filled with people, and their happiness made him even more distressed. He had no control over the situation, and that knowledge was devastating.

Emotion: on edge

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -1.77 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.35

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion on edge. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 on edge stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the on edge emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the on edge vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😖`	0.228
`😣`	0.224
`worse`	0.223
`urges`	0.216
`느껴`	0.214

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.514
`la`	-0.391
`a`	-0.366
`B`	-0.332
`L`	-0.283