sensitive - Story 128084 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pounding. The incessant, rhythmic pounding. It echoed in Leo's head like a physical pain. He retreated to his darkened living room, away from the encroaching construction. The fence. He hadn't wanted it. He didn't know why everyone needed to build walls.

He closed his eyes, and the drumming continued. His jaw ached from clenching his teeth. He felt as if someone was pulling his very core apart.

He reached for his earbuds, jabbing them into his ears, but even the loudest music couldn’t drown out the relentless rhythm of the hammers. It felt personal, a violation of the fragile peace he'd fought so hard to create. He sunk into the couch, feeling utterly and completely defenseless.

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