on edge - Story 96991 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email shimmered in the fluorescent glow of the library. Amelia stared at the subject line: “Featured Essay: Exemplar Application.” A cold sweat beaded on her forehead. The words felt like a physical weight, pressing down on her chest. She clicked, her heart hammering against her ribs.

The essay’s opening paragraph leaped out. It was *hers*. The same clumsy metaphors, the same awkward phrasing she’d agonized over. She scrolled down, her breath hitching. They’d published it. *Her* essay, exposed to the world. A flush of heat crept up her neck.

She slammed the laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in the otherwise silent room. She needed air. Now.

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