on edge - Story 96843 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt too loud. Sarah hated the way the floorboards creaked. Each sound echoed. It was like living inside a drum. The music blared from the apartment downstairs. She felt her chest tighten, breath hitching. She knew it would be her again.

Her hand trembled as she reached for the phone, dialing the number she had memorized. A voice, jovial and oblivious, answered.

"Hello?"

"Could you...could you please turn it down?" she managed, her voice barely a whisper. The smile faltered, replaced by a frown.

She dropped the phone and wrapped her arms around herself, rocking back and forth. The music continued, mocking her. She felt exposed, raw.

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