sensitive - Story 128094 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windowpane, mirroring the storm brewing inside Daniel. The attic room felt stuffy, the air thick with unspoken expectations. He hadn't touched any of his boxes yet, the unpacking a daunting task he'd been avoiding for days.

His mother called up the stairs, her voice warm, offering him a slice of apple pie. He stared at his reflection in the dusty mirror, his face pale, his eyes wide. He wanted to scream at the world. He wanted to scream at himself.

He couldn't even manage a reply. He simply slumped back against a box, a cold dread washing over him.

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