on edge - Story 96806 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the photograph, the image blurring through unshed tears. The picture was of a stranger, a woman with his mother's eyes, staring back at him. His chest tightened, a vise around his ribs. He felt restless, unable to find a comfortable position. His skin felt too tight, too close.

He had just received a phone call from his uncle, bearing news he hadn't known how to process. He stood to walk around the room, anything to dispel this feeling of entrapment. He felt as though he were trapped in a cage.

He needed to get outside, to feel the air, to breathe. He felt… agitated.

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