on edge - Story 96896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This isn’t right,” Liam muttered under his breath, his voice tight with barely suppressed anger. He slammed the paper onto his desk, the sound echoing unnaturally loud in the empty apartment. His jaw clenched, muscles bunching. He felt like his teeth were grinding together. He paced the length of the room, his movements jerky and restless. He grabbed his phone, then threw it back on the desk, the impulse to call someone, anyone, immediately quashed.

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