on edge - Story 96996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Congratulations, class!” The email from the university’s writing center bounced around in Maya’s inbox. “Your essay has been selected…” She felt her stomach drop like a plummeting elevator. Her essay.

She had to know. Curiosity, a cruel master, led her to click the link. The essay sprang from the page, ready to be scrutinized. A wave of nausea washed over her. She gripped the edge of the table.

She needed to be alone. She needed silence. She quickly turned off her phone and laptop. She was not leaving her apartment.

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