on edge - Story 96927 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vastness of the airport terminal amplified the emptiness inside Miles. He felt adrift, lost in the sea of hurried footsteps and echoing announcements. Each passing face seemed to scrutinize him. He couldn’t seem to stand still.

He watched a woman, her face pale, repeatedly check her watch. She bit her lip, her eyes darting between the departure boards and the faces of those around her. She looked ready to flee.

"Delayed flight?" he asked, trying to sound casual, but the words felt strained.

"More like a delayed life," she answered, the words escaping before she could stop them. Her shoulders slumped slightly. He understood.

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