The air conditioning hummed, a monotonous drone that grated on her nerves. She kept adjusting the strap of her purse, a nervous habit that seemed to amplify the feeling of unease bubbling beneath the surface. Her gaze darted from the framed diplomas on the wall to the sterile, minimalist furniture. It all felt so… impersonal. She felt disconnected from herself, like her body was a separate entity, betraying her with every twitch and tremor. She wanted to scream, but instead, she just sat, frozen.

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