on edge - Story 96909 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold wind whipped around Emily as she sat on the steps of the administration building. She wrapped her arms around herself, trying to ward off the chill. The feeling inside her was colder. The news had stolen her appetite, her focus, and her sleep.

She watched the other students come and go, their faces reflecting her own disquiet. Each passing person reminded her of how quickly everything could change. The wind seemed to be carrying all her plans away, scattered like leaves in the autumn breeze.

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