on edge - Story 96995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s words echoed in Leo’s ears, even though the lecture hall was now empty. “A model application essay…” The words were both praise and a sentence. He could feel his skin prickling with a sudden heat.

He found himself wandering the campus, aimlessly. The sunlight felt too bright, the air too heavy. He avoided eye contact with everyone he passed, fearing they could read the essay in his eyes.

He kicked at a loose stone on the path, sending it skittering across the cracked pavement. He wanted to scream. He wanted to vanish.

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