on edge - Story 96993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification pinged. Sarah froze, her fingers hovering over the trackpad. Her application essay. Featured. In the student newspaper. A tremor ran through her.

She picked at the corner of the label on her coffee cup. The cafe seemed to grow stifling, the chatter of other students morphing into a mocking chorus in her ears. Each syllable was a judgment. She felt exposed.

She had to get out, she realized. Now. She threw a crumpled twenty on the table and bolted for the door, the bell above the door chiming like a death knell.

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