on edge - Story 96960 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept in days. The world seemed to be closing in around Thomas. Every sound, every shadow, amplified his mounting dread. He couldn't relax, couldn't find peace. He had to be productive.

He wandered out to the garden. He grabbed a shovel from the shed, and started digging, a frenzied energy propelling him. He knew, somehow, that this was the answer.

He unearthed a heavy, wooden chest. Inside, nestled amongst yellowed papers, was a journal. He flipped through the pages, each word a cold, hard slap to the face. His face went white.

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