on edge - Story 96808 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath came in shallow, rapid gasps. The restaurant buzzed around her, the clinking of glasses and the chatter of other diners a cacophony of sound that she found overwhelming. Her head pounded, the pressure building behind her eyes. She’d ordered a glass of wine, but couldn't bring herself to take a sip.

A text message. A name. A shocking revelation about her father, a man she thought she knew. Her carefully constructed reality felt threatened, on the verge of collapsing. She felt the sudden urge to run.

She felt… fragile.

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