on edge - Story 96879 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kept replaying the conversation in his mind, the lies, the betrayals. His art had been stolen, and now it was being celebrated without his consent. He felt a rising tide of anger, a red haze. He was shaking. He needed to leave, to escape this cage.

His heart was hammering against his ribs. He felt a sudden, desperate urge to lash out. He wanted to smash the artwork, to tear it down. He wanted to scream. He forced himself to take a deep breath, trying to regain control.

He walked briskly towards the exit.

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