on edge - Story 96876 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Do you like it?” the woman asked him, a forced cheer in her voice. He stiffened, unable to form a coherent response. His artwork wasn’t meant for public consumption. Each canvas held a private memory, a moment of profound sadness. He felt a creeping dread. He felt cornered. He felt as if the walls of the gallery were closing in on him.

He was trapped. He could barely stand.

He wanted to scream.

His body felt like it was vibrating. He felt as though he might disintegrate.

He muttered something about needing air and pushed past her.

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