on edge - Story 96886 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in Leo’s workshop felt thick, suffocating. He hammered at a piece of wood, the repetitive motion doing little to quell the agitation bubbling inside him. Across the way, Mr. and Mrs. Evans' house was a hive of activity. Expensive cars came and went, carrying what he could only assume were even more expensive packages. He found himself picking at the callus on his thumb.

He paused, leaning against his workbench, and stared at the partially finished birdhouse he was constructing. He hadn't touched it in weeks. He felt a burning in his chest. His own life felt so…small, compared to whatever was going on over there.

He threw down the hammer. He needed to get out, he thought. He needed air. He felt the overwhelming urge to…to what? To run? To scream?

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