on edge - Story 96809 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the door, the sound echoing in the empty house. The silence that followed was even more oppressive. He felt a tremor through him, his hands shaking slightly as he reached for a cigarette. The nicotine did little to calm his nerves.

A letter arrived that morning, a legal document. An ancestry test. A confirmation of a long-held secret. He felt a constant sense of unease, a tension that tightened his muscles. He ran his hand through his hair, a nervous gesture.

His focus seemed scattered, unable to concentrate. He felt… strung out.

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