Her stomach churned. The innocuous water cooler in the corner seemed to loom, a monstrous presence. She gripped the arms of the chair, her knuckles white. She tried to appear calm, but a muscle in her cheek ticked uncontrollably. Memories, unwanted and vivid, flooded her mind, casting a long shadow of dread. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, as if she was about to explode. Why hadn't she just turned around and left?

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