on edge - Story 96916 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was too loud. Every creak of the floorboards, every rustle of leaves, every distant siren, seemed to reverberate in Clara's skull. She felt raw, exposed.

A tap at the window startled her. It was Mr. Miller, pointing at the row of maples that divided their properties.

"They're a nuisance," he declared, his voice booming. "Too many seeds. They're dropping everywhere."

Clara's breath caught in her throat. She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. She gripped the window frame, her knuckles white. "I… I haven't noticed," she stammered, her voice shaking. She couldn’t look at him.

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