on edge - Story 96810 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city noise, usually a comforting backdrop to her life, now grated on her nerves. Car horns blared, sirens wailed in the distance, and the relentless hum of the air conditioning unit filled her small apartment. Her back ached, and she kept shifting in her chair.

An unexpected phone call, the voice of a woman she'd never met. The news landed like a punch to the gut, leaving her winded and off-kilter. She needed to know more, but the thought of delving into her family history left her feeling… unbalanced.

She kept tapping her foot. The world was too much.

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