on edge - Story 96956 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I just… I don't get it," Mark muttered, pacing back and forth in his basement. The damp air clung to his skin like a shroud. He’d been snapping gum and chewing on his lip, fidgeting and glancing around the room.

He’d unearthed this strange metal container from under the old workbench an hour ago. He couldn't shake the feeling that he was being watched. He didn’t know how he knew, or why he knew, but he was sure he had buried it there. But when? Why? The questions swirled in his head, a dizzying vortex.

He lifted the lid with a trembling hand, expecting a snake or something.

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