on edge - Story 96926 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt suffocating. Amelia's palms were slick with sweat. Every word, every glance, amplified the turmoil within her. The air was thick with unspoken accusations, and the weight of it pressed down on her chest. She wished she could leave.

A man in the gallery kept running his hands through his hair. He stared intently at the judge, his jaw clenched, his body rigid. His eyes darted from the witness to the defendant. He seemed to be fighting to remain still.

He met her gaze, and gave a slight, almost imperceptible nod. He seemed like a man at the end of his rope.

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