on edge - Story 96837 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, beige envelope felt heavy in his hand. Inside, a bank statement, neatly folded, revealing a shocking truth. For months, Chris had been struggling with job insecurity, and then this.

He reread the details. The balance, the transfers, the dates. His heart rate accelerated. He pictured his wife, Lisa, her easy laughter, her constant reassurances about their finances. He felt a sharp jab of resentment.

He felt a sudden need to leave. He grabbed his keys and wallet, the house feeling like a cage. He just wanted to walk, to move, to be away from the stifling atmosphere of the truth.

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