sensitive - Story 128076 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of frying food from the food truck festival made Oliver nauseous. He’d agreed to meet “TechTitan” by the Ferris wheel. They'd spent countless hours discussing coding and software. Then TechTitan revealed they were local.

He picked at a loose thread on his jeans. The vibrant colors of the festival felt overwhelming. Every laugh, every conversation, magnified his insecurities. He didn’t want his online persona exposed, his carefully crafted confidence shattered.

A person with a laptop bag approached, their eyes scanning the crowd. Oliver felt a jolt of panic. He willed himself to be invisible. The feeling of being watched intensified. He turned away, wishing he could evaporate.

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