sensitive - Story 128160 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city skyline blurred through the car window. The sleek skyscrapers mocked him with their grandeur. He tried to focus on the road, but the image of her, receiving the job offer, kept flashing in his mind.

He gripped the steering wheel, his knuckles white. The tension in his shoulders was immense. He was trying to be mature. He had to act calm.

He pulled up outside her apartment. They had a date. He was late.

He tried to smile as he approached the door. "Hey," he began, but the word felt fragile on his tongue.

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