on edge - Story 96848 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the apartment felt thick, heavy. Everything seemed to press in on Clara, suffocating her. The vibrations from the party downstairs had settled into a dull ache in her bones. She felt a need to take flight, to escape, to run.

She grabbed her keys. She glanced at the door, then turned and began to gather her things. She couldn't deal with it.

The sound of laughter drifted up through the floorboards. She felt a surge of rage, swiftly followed by a sense of defeat. She slammed the door.

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