sensitive - Story 128089 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in Mark's hand as he stared at the voicemail from his neighbor. He’d avoided the confrontation; he hated conflict. The fence was up, dividing his small lot.

His breath hitched in his throat. He felt a lump rise in his throat, making it difficult to swallow. The air seemed thin, almost impossible to breathe.

He didn't want to argue, but the change felt significant. He wanted to preserve the informal ease of their connection. He closed his eyes, his mind replaying the conversation he knew he should have had. The thought of actually speaking to the neighbor made his stomach turn.

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