sensitive - Story 128164 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ballroom seemed to tilt on its axis when Ethan saw her across the dance floor. His heart felt like it was trying to escape his chest. He felt like he couldn’t swallow. He quickly grabbed another hors d'oeuvre, even though he wasn't hungry.

He felt the familiar shame wash over him. His cheeks flushed with an uncomfortable heat. He didn’t want to be here.

He busied himself talking to his friend, his voice barely a whisper. He kept his eyes averted, desperately hoping to avoid a collision. He wished he had just stayed home.

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