sensitive - Story 128149 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The neon lights of the arcade, normally a beacon of excitement, now glared harshly, making Finn’s eyes water. Mr. Jones, the arcade owner, the one adult who understood him, who never judged his passion for gaming, was… missing. A note taped to the door: *Closed. Thank you for the memories.* Finn ran a hand over the smooth surface of his favorite game, a sense of profound loss washing over him. The familiar sounds of the arcade were gone. The air felt heavy, suffocating. He felt a hotness behind his eyes, threatening to spill over.

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