The clinking of silverware on china grated on Michael's nerves. His mother’s incessant questions about his ex-girlfriend felt like a physical blow. He picked at his food, the meatloaf suddenly tasting like cardboard.

"Are you sleeping okay, dear?" she asked, her brow furrowed with concern. He felt the sting of tears prick his eyes.

He needed space, a vast, open expanse, to breathe. Everything felt so tight, so close. He pushed his plate away, unable to meet her gaze. The world was too much to bear.

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:
ness0.304
😞0.282
😥0.272
😣0.271
own0.264
Suppressed:
la-0.679
de-0.660
a-0.281
"-0.280
(!)-0.242