on edge - Story 96923 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the coffee shop, mirroring the storm inside Leo. He stirred his coffee, watching the brown liquid swirl in endless circles. The steam blurred his vision, but the anxiety in his gut remained in razor-sharp focus. He jumped at the bell that chimed as the door opened.

A girl, her face pale, took the table next to him. She kept fiddling with the straw in her drink, twisting and bending it until it looked mangled. She kept glancing at the door, her eyes wide, searching.

"You waiting for someone?" he blurted out, the question escaping before he could stop it. The girl jumped slightly, then looked over at him with a gaze that felt strangely familiar.

"Just... impatient," she said quietly, her voice barely a whisper. Her hands were shaking so slightly he barely noticed.

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