on edge - Story 96906 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun, usually a source of comfort, felt harsh against Ethan's face. He leaned against the brick wall of the campus building, watching the other students, their faces etched with a range of emotions. He felt detached, numb.

He kept fiddling with the frayed edges of his bookbag strap. His jaw clenched as he remembered the student loan debt he'd accrued. His breath hitched as he thought of what the future would bring. The world felt brittle, fragile, capable of shattering at any moment.

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