on edge - Story 96818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering of the overhead fluorescent lights made him dizzy. He took a deep breath, trying to steady himself, but it caught in his throat. He felt the familiar knot of dread tightening in his stomach. He’d known this would be difficult, but he hadn’t anticipated the sheer intensity of the discomfort. He cracked his knuckles, a nervous tic he hadn't realized he still possessed. Each second felt like an eternity, the anticipation a physical ache.

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