sensitive - Story 128237 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school hallways buzzed with whispers. John avoided eye contact, his face burning with a mixture of shame and fury. His online diary had revealed his crush on Emily, and now everyone knew.

He shoved his hands into his pockets, his knuckles white. The air felt heavy, as if charged with electricity. He could hear the laughter and snide remarks, the undercurrent of judgment.

He pushed past a group of his classmates, his shoulders tense. He wanted to disappear, to become invisible, to escape the suffocating weight of everyone's scrutiny. He felt completely undone.

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