sensitive - Story 128209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He woke up feeling off, a general sense of foreboding clinging to him like a damp shroud. He tried to shake it off, but the feeling only intensified.

The empty spot in his driveway confirmed his worst fears. His stomach lurched, and he felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead.

The tow truck... he couldn't even bring himself to fully process the implications. He hated dealing with people, and the thought of having to navigate the towing bureaucracy was overwhelming.

He rested his head against the cool glass of his kitchen window. The world seemed to tilt slightly off-kilter.

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