sensitive - Story 128060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been sleeping well. The slightest noise made him jump. The memory, the image of it, was permanently burned into his mind. He found the pawn shop’s darkness a comfort, a place where he could hide.

He kept his head down, trying to avoid eye contact, but everyone in the store seemed to be staring at him. He felt the all-encompassing weight of his recent loss. It felt like he was wading through treacle.

Then, there it was. The ring. The inscription, the date… the same. It was his grandmother’s, he knew. He felt a sudden, inexplicable tightening in his chest. His knees almost buckled as he reached for it.

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