on edge - Story 96919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence was the worst part. The absence of noise only served to amplify the fear, the anticipation of something unpleasant. He kept checking the locks, double and triple-checking.

The persistent ringing of the doorbell. It was Mr. Chen. The birch tree.

"It's leaning," he said, his voice flat, devoid of emotion. "It could fall."

Ethan felt a jolt of pure panic. He couldn’t speak. He just stared at the tree, imagining it crashing down, taking everything with it. He just shook his head.

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