on edge - Story 96780 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom was packed, the hushed whispers echoing in the vast space. Sophia kept twisting the strap of her purse, a nervous habit she couldn't seem to break. Her brother, Ethan, sat beside her, his face a carefully constructed mask of composure. He looked completely different.

She felt like she was trapped in a play. The air in the room felt heavy, charged with anticipation and years of buried family secrets. The lawyer’s voice, amplified by the courtroom's acoustics, began to drone on.

Ethan received the family's art gallery and the majority of their assets. Sophia, known for her artistic talent, was given the family’s old recording studio and a collection of her mother’s journals. The solicitor produced a small, wooden box. Inside, they found a collection of old tapes and the instructions for a treasure hunt.

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