on edge - Story 96789 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her fingers fumbled with the mouse, her heart hammering against her ribs. The listing felt like a trespass, an invasion of her privacy. She felt a wave of icy dread wash over her.

She stared at the image of the front door, the paint peeling the same way it always had. A chill ran through her, making her shiver uncontrollably.

She glanced at the clock, the seconds ticking by too slowly. She needed to get away, to block this out. She stood abruptly, knocking over a nearby chair.

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