on edge - Story 96974 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant hum of the refrigerator, usually a comfort, felt oppressive. He couldn’t sit still, couldn’t focus. Every creak of the house, every rustle of the wind outside, sent a jolt of alarm through him. He hadn't slept well in days.

His hand tightened on the doorknob as he saw Mrs. Davis approaching. She was carrying a tray of muffins, which felt like a deliberate act. *Why now?* The question, unspoken, hung in the air.

"Good morning, dear! These are for you. And I was hoping… I'm thinking of starting a small herb garden. Perhaps… a section of your yard?" He felt his pulse quicken. The muffins felt suddenly heavy in his hand.

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