on edge - Story 96910 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," muttered Ben under his breath, as he ran his fingers through his hair. He could feel a nervous energy in his legs, making him want to sprint. The announcement had shattered his composure. He felt a constant, low-grade thrum of unease vibrating through his whole body.

He grabbed a crumpled piece of paper, and crumpled it further. He threw it in the bin, and then opened the drawer again, picking up another one. It was all a mess, a huge mess. He paced, agitated, around his small apartment. Everything he thought he knew was crumbling.

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