on edge - Story 96908 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home felt longer than usual. Maya gripped the steering wheel so tightly her knuckles were white. The radio, usually a source of distraction, grated on her nerves. The announcement had hit her like a physical blow.

She swerved slightly as a car cut her off. She recovered quickly, but the near miss sent her heart hammering against her ribs. She needed to get home, needed to be in her space. She needed to… what? She didn’t know. The weight of the unknown settled heavily upon her shoulders.

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