on edge - Story 96764 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car ride had been a mistake. The endless fields of green, the gentle sway of the trees lining the road, all felt like a mocking performance. Every bump in the road jarred her. The air conditioning was failing. She kept drumming her fingers against her thigh.

When she saw the clearing, the breath caught in her throat. Her heart tripped in her chest. She got out of the car, slamming the door a little harder than necessary. The slam echoed in the stillness.

Her eyes stung. She touched a trembling finger to her bottom lip. It felt like a betrayal. A cold, hard hollowness settled in her stomach.

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