on edge - Story 96917 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant pressure in Ben’s chest made breathing feel difficult. He felt like he was constantly teetering on the brink of something awful. The slightest thing could send him over the edge.

The knock at the door was sharp, insistent. It was Mr. Olsen. The oak tree. Of course.

“It’s a danger,” he said, his voice curt. “Overhanging branches. Liability.”

Ben felt a cold wave wash over him. He instinctively took a step backward. His gaze darted around, searching for an escape. “I… I’ll have someone look at it,” he said, the words forced and hollow.

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