on edge - Story 96793 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house always had a strange, musty smell. He now couldn't escape the odor of decay, even after bleaching every surface. He'd find himself staring into corners, expecting something to appear. His skin crawled as he thought about how someone was murdered in the house.

He started sleeping on the couch. Every creak of the floorboards sent a jolt of adrenaline through him. He couldn’t shake the feeling of being watched.

He tried to distract himself by cooking, but even the scent of garlic and onions seemed to thicken the air with a sense of unease. He knew the police report. The details haunted him. He considered moving, then considered the financial hit. He felt trapped.

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