sensitive - Story 128166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is just great," Leo muttered under his breath as he caught sight of her. His hands started to sweat. He had tried to prepare himself, but the sight of her sent a jolt through his entire system.

He suddenly developed an intense interest in the patterns on the tablecloth. He felt a sudden, urgent need to escape. He looked around wildly, searching for an exit.

He spotted her talking to a group of people and felt a feeling that he didn't want to name. He retreated, trying to blend into the shadows near the bar. He ordered a double scotch, hoping the alcohol would help.

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