sensitive - Story 128071 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the tremor in Elias's hands as he typed. He’d just finished a heated online argument with “ShadowWolf88,” the only person he felt truly understood his love for obscure indie bands. Now, ShadowWolf had suggested a meet-up. In the same city. Elias felt a wave of nausea. He hadn't left his apartment in three weeks, not since the last rejection letter.

He clicked on ShadowWolf's profile. A grainy selfie, a blurred cityscape in the background. His city. A cold knot tightened in his stomach. He pictured himself, awkward, tongue-tied, the argument replaying in his head. The potential rejection stung.

He closed the laptop, the screen reflecting his pale face. The drumming of the rain seemed to echo the rapid beat of his own heart. He wrapped his arms around himself, wanting to disappear.

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