sensitive - Story 128219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique shop was filled with the smell of old paper and dust, a scent that usually soothed Michael. Today, it only seemed to amplify his unease. Across the cramped aisle, David was describing their treasure hunt, his voice filled with delight.

“You found the map, and we were so excited. It was epic!” David said, his eyes sparkling.

Michael’s breath hitched. He remembered the map being there, but the way he saw it was different.

"I don't remember being so excited," Michael murmured, his fingers tracing the edge of an old photograph. He could feel his face burning.

David’s smile faded. “Well, you were. You were so happy that day.” He studied Michael for a moment, his brow furrowed in confusion. Michael turned away, unable to meet his gaze.

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