sensitive - Story 128045 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first day was manageable. Then the drilling started. It felt like something was drilling into Liam's skull. He sank into his armchair, a blanket pulled over his head, but the sound still reverberated in his bones.

He'd been looking forward to a relaxing weekend, but now, the prospect felt impossible. He could feel the pulse in his temples, a relentless throbbing that mirrored the tempo of the construction. He wanted to run, to escape the noise.

He closed his eyes and attempted to meditate, but the image of the men with their power tools kept flashing behind his eyelids. He felt a wave of nausea, a dizzying feeling of being overwhelmed. He hated feeling this way.

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