on edge - Story 96829 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt suffocating, the air thick with tension. James had poured his heart into this case, meticulously crafting his arguments. His client was innocent. He knew it.

Then came the surprise witness, a lawyer from a rival firm, and a copy of James' legal documentation.

A surge of anger, hot and fierce, coursed through him. He’d been betrayed.

The opposing lawyer began his presentation. The words seemed to echo in his mind, echoing his own. Every phrase was familiar, every argument was stolen. James stood, his hands clenched, his knuckles white. His carefully built case was being torn apart.

The room seemed to spin. He focused on his breathing, desperate to stay grounded. He felt betrayed, cheated, robbed.

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