on edge - Story 97000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the situation landed on Elara like a physical blow. Her application essay. Published. It felt like her deepest secrets had been broadcast across the campus. She chewed on her lip, a habit that returned every time she was troubled.

She kept scrolling, reading comments on the essay. The praise, the critique, the laughter, it all blended into a cacophony. A nervous tremor went through her. She felt like she could break.

She shut the laptop and went to the bathroom, splashing cold water on her face. The reflection in the mirror stared back at her, eyes wide and unseeing.

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