sensitive - Story 128126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A shiver ran down Ethan's spine as he watched the news crawl across the screen, another delay. His voice sounded thin when he spoke to the airline employee, "Is there anything else you can do?" His grandfather's induction ceremony. The one chance he would have to tell him how proud he was.

He was aware of the heat rising up his neck as he waited for a response. The employee shook their head. He felt utterly exposed, vulnerable.

He found himself pacing, unable to remain still. Every footstep echoed in the empty corridor, a constant reminder of the time slipping away.

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