on edge - Story 96957 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun beat down, and the heat pressed down on Emily. Her throat felt tight, and she kept swallowing, trying to loosen the constriction. Her legs felt restless, and she couldn't stand still. This project felt like someone had cast a spell on her.

She had to get the overgrown garden under control. She couldn't ignore the way the weeds had taken over. The thought of it was making her itchy. She needed to *do* something.

As she dug, the shovel struck something resistant. Metal. Buried just beneath the roots of a rose bush. She carefully lifted the object. It was a time capsule.

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