on edge - Story 96997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library felt colder now, the air conditioning suddenly too aggressive. He'd been looking at the essay for an hour. James kept rereading the same sentences, picking at perceived imperfections. His hands wouldn’t stay still, tapping his leg incessantly.

He pulled at his collar, as if the fabric was strangling him. He felt pinned down, trapped in a cage of his own words. Each phrase, each comma, felt like a public declaration of his inadequacies. He could not sit here anymore.

He gathered his things, his movements jerky and inefficient. He didn’t look up as he fled the building.

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