sensitive - Story 128124 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny, cramped waiting area felt like a pressure cooker. Leo ran a hand through his already dishevelled hair. He could feel the pulse in his temple thumping in time with the delayed boarding announcements. His uncle's retirement party. He’d promised to be there.

He sat rigidly upright, forcing himself to breathe deeply. Each passing minute felt like a physical weight on his shoulders. The scent of stale coffee and desperation permeated the air, a scent that now seemed to cling to his very soul.

He pulled his phone out again, knowing the news would be the same but searching for a miracle anyway.

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