on edge - Story 96779 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the sterile, modern office was thick with the scent of expensive perfume and unspoken resentments. Alex, gripping the armrests of his chair, tried to maintain a composed façade. Across the table, his sister, Chloe, seemed to be radiating an almost palpable smugness.

He felt the muscles in his jaw tighten. He wanted to scream. The lawyer cleared her throat, signaling the start of the reading.

Chloe, the favored child, was granted their parents’ beachfront property and a generous sum of money. Alex, the black sheep, received a dilapidated cottage in the mountains and a collection of his father’s old tools. Then the lawyer produced a package: a collection of old photographs and a letter from their parents detailing a secret inheritance.

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