sensitive - Story 128067 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit Ben like a physical blow. He stared at the email, the words a jumbled mess. He felt a hollowness in his chest, a vacuum where excitement and hope had been moments before.

He was in the school cafeteria, surrounded by chattering students. Their laughter grated on his ears. He wanted to scream. He wanted to disappear. He felt a sudden, overwhelming urge to be alone.

He pushed his untouched lunch away. He rose and walked, his footsteps echoing too loudly in the crowded space. He didn't look back. He just needed to find somewhere quiet.

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