on edge - Story 96897 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus ride home stretched into an eternity. Amelia stared out the window, the passing scenery a blur of colours she couldn't process. She gripped the cold metal bar above her head, her knuckles white. Each stop felt like a physical jolt, each announcement a further twist of the knife. Her stomach was a tight knot, churning with a mixture of disbelief and dread. She kept replaying the scene in her head, searching for a single misstep, a flaw in her arguments.

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