sensitive - Story 128036 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found it wedged between two obscure academic texts in the library. The title, "The Quiet Rebel: A Biography of Daniel Carter," seemed innocuous enough until he saw his own face staring back at him from the cover. He froze.

A wave of dizziness hit him. His legs felt like jelly. He gripped the edge of the table, his knuckles white. The library's quiet murmur, usually a comfort, became a cacophony.

He couldn't breathe. The book documented his secret activism, his quiet defiance against the established order. Now, it was out in the open. He felt exposed, vulnerable, stripped bare. He needed to get out, to escape the judging eyes of the other patrons, the weight of his revealed secrets.

Emotion: sensitive

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.10 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.75

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion sensitive. 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 sensitive stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the sensitive emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the sensitive vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`ness`	0.304
`😞`	0.282
`😥`	0.272
`😣`	0.271
`own`	0.264

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.679
`de`	-0.660
`a`	-0.281
`"`	-0.280
`(!)`	-0.242