The house always felt colder than it should. She noticed it after the news. The draft from the window felt like an icy hand brushing her skin. She pulled the blankets tighter, even though it was not truly cold.

She started seeing things, shadows flickering at the periphery of her vision. She would jump at any sudden noise. She felt she was being watched by invisible eyes.

She spent hours online researching the crime, trying to understand, but the more she learned, the worse it became. The information would just stay locked in her head. She was unable to sleep.

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
worse0.223
urges0.216
느껴0.214
Suppressed:
de-0.514
la-0.391
a-0.366
B-0.332
L-0.283