on edge - Story 96838 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the bedroom felt thick, charged. The password for the shared computer hadn't worked. He had managed to get in by resetting the password. He navigated to the files, and it took him a moment to process the information on the screen. He scrolled through the transactions.

The money, tucked away in a high-yield savings account, represented a lifestyle that he didn't know existed in his marriage. His throat constricted, and he felt a wave of dizziness. He slowly sat down on the bed, the mattress suddenly feeling hard and unyielding.

He looked at the open closet, at her clothes, at the familiar details of their life together, but now nothing felt certain.

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