sensitive - Story 128130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was acutely aware of every single sound, the echoing footsteps, the clatter of the luggage carts, the incessant announcements. Mark’s jaw tightened. He read the departures board: *Cancelled*. His mother's funeral. He stared at it, the words blurred through his watering eyes.

His breath hitched in his throat. He felt a sudden, overwhelming urge to run, to escape the suffocating atmosphere of the terminal. He pushed back from his seat.

He didn't know where he was going. He just needed to get 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