on edge - Story 96798 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. The report hung in his mind. He couldn't shake the images. He had been the one to buy this house. Now he was trapped here.

He started leaving lights on everywhere, a desperate attempt to ward off the shadows. He checked under the beds, in the closets, every night. A cold shiver ran through him, leaving him trembling.

He began talking aloud to the empty rooms, trying to reassure himself. His voice sounded thin and strained. He felt isolated and alone. The weight of the house’s history was on him.

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