on edge - Story 96878 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery's harsh lights seemed to highlight every flaw in his work, every imperfection. The unauthorized display was a cruel mockery of his passion. He found it difficult to breathe. He wanted to vanish, to dissolve into the shadows. He didn't want this attention.

He was surrounded by people, but he felt utterly alone. Each comment, each glance at his paintings, felt like a deliberate jab. He couldn't meet anyone's eyes. He felt a sharp pain in his chest, making him clutch the fabric of his shirt.

He excused himself and stumbled out of the gallery.

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