on edge - Story 96936 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the hydrangeas, their blue hues shockingly vibrant against the stark white of his kitchen. Michael's fingers fidgeted with the edge of the countertop. He hadn't been expecting anything, not a delivery, not a call, nothing. A sense of unease washed over him.

He circled the flowers slowly, examining them as if they held the key to some secret. No card. His gaze landed on his keys hanging near the door, then back to the flowers. A cold dread crept into his gut.

He grabbed his keys and jacket, moving with a speed that belied his usual calm demeanor. He had to know who sent these. He had to know *why*. He didn't want to get caught off guard.

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