on edge - Story 96787 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The listing had been up for a week. She had checked it every day, each time the same feeling of disquiet rising in her. Today, she could hardly breathe. Her chest felt constricted.

She pushed back from her desk, the chair squeaking in protest. The air in her small apartment felt thick, heavy. She felt a burning need to escape.

She grabbed her keys and coat, her movements jerky and hurried. She needed to get out, to walk, to distance herself from the memories, from the emotions the listing had dredged up.

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