sensitive - Story 128080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold wind whipped through the park as Sam waited. He was meant to meet “NatureNerdNoah” by the old oak tree. They’d spent hours online discussing their favorite plants. Now they were in the same city.

He hunched his shoulders against the wind, his hands jammed in his pockets. The open space of the park felt vast and intimidating. He felt vulnerable. The pressure mounted. He hated this feeling of exposure.

A young man with a backpack approached, carrying a book about trees. Sam’s breath hitched. He wanted to bolt. He looked down at his feet, unable to meet the other person's gaze. The weight in his chest felt unbearable.

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