on edge - Story 96998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The essay was staring at her from the admissions website. The words felt alien, like she hadn’t written them. Her palms were sweating. Chloe could feel the pressure building behind her eyes.

She quickly clicked away from the website. She rose from the desk and stared out the window, at the gray sky and rain drops. The world felt muted, unreal. She wanted to scream, to lash out.

She spun around, her gaze landing on her bookshelf. Maybe a distraction.

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