“Well, that’s that then,” Miles muttered, staring at the empty desk. Miss Eleanor, his music teacher, his champion, his… everything, had vanished. Her desk, usually overflowing with sheet music and brightly colored pens, was now pristine. A brief, unsigned note: *Gone.* Miles ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he wasn't even aware he had. The silence in the practice room was deafening. He felt a strange tingling in his hands, a sudden urge to break something, anything, just to shatter the unsettling calm.

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:
ness0.304
😞0.282
😥0.272
😣0.271
own0.264
Suppressed:
la-0.679
de-0.660
a-0.281
"-0.280
(!)-0.242