on edge - Story 96930 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old library seemed to swallow him whole. Michael hunched over the ancient tome, his back prickling. The musty scent of aged paper and binding did nothing to calm the internal tremors he was experiencing. He tried to focus, but his mind kept racing, a whirlwind of anxieties.

A woman nearby kept flipping through the pages of a different book, her movements jerky and erratic. She kept glancing at him, her eyes wide, as if anticipating something awful. He knew the feeling.

He approached her carefully. "You... you okay?"

She shook her head. Her lips were trembling. "I don't think so."

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