on edge - Story 96880 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't eaten all day. His stomach twisted with a familiar anxiety. The unauthorized exhibit felt like an invasion. He wandered through the gallery, a hollow feeling echoing in his chest. Each painting felt like a wound ripped open. The casual observation of others, the idle chatter, it felt deeply hurtful.

His feet carried him towards the entrance. His throat felt tight. He had to escape, to breathe free air. He felt a profound sense of injustice. He needed to get away, and he needed to do so now. He couldn't bear to look at the paintings another second.

He slipped out into the night, unseen.

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