on edge - Story 96769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd been avoiding this moment all day, the knowledge of it hanging over him like a storm cloud. He’d gone to the hardware store, gotten a haircut, anything to fill the emptiness. Now, here he was. He found himself avoiding looking at the place, staring at the ground, then the trees, anything but the spot.

He forced himself to look. He flinched, as if he’d been struck. His shoulders slumped. He felt an intense urge to run.

He took a deep breath, and his chest felt tight. He had to steady himself. He kicked at a loose stone.

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