on edge - Story 96905 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It's not fair, it's just not fair!" Chloe exclaimed, slamming her fist on the table. The cheap plastic rattled. Her roommate, Mia, flinched. The abrupt news of the closure had sent Chloe spiraling.

She hadn't eaten all day. Every muscle in her body was taut. She picked at the chipped nail polish on her thumb, then, with a sharp intake of breath, started to pace the small room. The thought of losing her carefully crafted routine and her friends made her stomach clench.

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