on edge - Story 96817 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Damn,” she muttered, her voice barely a whisper. The familiar pang of anxiety settled in her stomach, a leaden weight. She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to force the image of *him* out of her mind. It was useless. Every surface in the room seemed to vibrate with the memory of his taunts, his cruelty. She crossed her arms, trying to physically contain the tremor that ran through her. She felt trapped, like a fly caught in a spider's web.

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