sensitive - Story 128107 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant tapping of the keyboard was a relentless metronome. It set the pace for an unwanted discomfort. He was training his replacement. The first few days of the training sessions were fine, but now he felt as though he was being stripped of his dignity. The office felt like a cage.

He kept his head down, focused on the screen, avoiding any direct eye contact. His mouth tasted sour. Every time his replacement asked a question, a cold dread washed over him. He felt as though he was slowly being erased.

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