sensitive - Story 128114 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You're shifting to the back row, Ben." The coach's pronouncement was matter-of-fact, lacking any of the usual encouragement. Ben's gut twisted. He had always been a setter, orchestrating the plays, the heartbeat of the team. Now, he was being demoted.

He felt a sudden ache in his jaw, the silent pressure of holding back emotion. The volleyball court, his sanctuary, now seemed hostile. The shouts and sounds of practice pierced through his defenses.

He busied himself with tying his shoelaces, focusing on the small task to avoid meeting his teammates’ eyes. The weight of disappointment settled on him like a lead blanket, making it difficult to breathe. He felt so... exposed.

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