on edge - Story 96980 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kept fiddling with the thermostat, adjusting it up and down, unable to find a comfortable temperature. He needed a distraction, something to quiet the turmoil inside him, but nothing seemed to work. He rubbed his hands together constantly.

A polite knock. The sound caused him to start. It was Mrs. Peterson, her arms filled with potting soil and small gardening tools. She looked so… calm.

“Lovely day! I was thinking of growing some lettuce, and I need a sunny spot. I was hoping…” The words trailed off, but the question was clear. He felt a sudden, inexplicable heat rising in his face.

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