on edge - Story 96928 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The therapist's office felt sterile, a place where vulnerability was dissected and analyzed. Daniel sat rigid in the armchair, his leg bouncing uncontrollably. Each observation, each probing question, felt like a direct assault. He was struggling to keep it together.

A woman across from him, her posture mirroring his, picked at a loose thread on her sleeve. Her eyes were fixed on the floor. Her voice, when she spoke, was barely above a whisper.

"It's just... exhausting," she murmured. He knew exactly what she meant. They were two sides of the same coin.

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