on edge - Story 96797 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She walked through the house, the floorboards groaning beneath her feet. Each sound brought her closer to the details. Details of the crime. She felt as if she was re-tracing the footsteps of the victim.

She felt a physical ache in her chest, a tightness that wouldn't release. She kept the blinds closed, but the lack of light only intensified the feeling of oppression.

She found herself drawn to the scene of the crime, the room where everything had happened. She wanted to know what happened there, what the people experienced. Now she was the one experiencing the dread.

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