on edge - Story 96992 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand through his hair, tugging so hard he thought he might pull some strands out. The coffee tasted bitter, a reflection of the taste in his mouth. In the university’s newsletter, nestled between announcements for the bake sale and the upcoming lecture series, was it. *His*.

He felt a sudden urge to flee, to disappear. He jumped up from his desk so quickly the chair skidded back. He didn't know where he would go, but he knew he couldn’t stay there. He needed to get away from the glare of the screen, the scrutiny of his peers, the feeling of vulnerability that had suddenly swamped him.

He fumbled with his backpack, stuffing his laptop inside. The weight of it felt oppressive, a physical manifestation of his anxiety.

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