sensitive - Story 128079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of brewing coffee filled the air as James entered the cafe. He was there to meet "WriterWanderer," the online friend he'd been sharing his stories with for months, who turned out to be a neighbor.

He sat at a small table, watching the other patrons. Their easy interactions seemed alien to him. The chatter and clinking of cups were a cacophony. His heart raced. He felt as though he were under a microscope.

A woman with a notebook and pen approached his table. "James?" she asked, her voice soft. He swallowed hard, his throat tight. He nodded, suddenly overwhelmed. He felt a desperate need to retreat.

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