sensitive - Story 128264 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the swimming pool felt thick, heavy. David watched as the coach shook his head, a gesture of disappointment he'd become all too familiar with. His shoulders slumped, the weight of the rejection a physical burden. He knew the times he'd posted weren't good enough, but hearing it confirmed felt different. He felt a deep hollowness open in his gut.

He slowly pulled off his swim cap, running a hand over his soaked hair. The chlorine smell, once invigorating, now felt like a suffocating shroud. He wanted to scream. Instead, he just stood there, letting the water drip from his fingertips.

He couldn't even meet the eyes of the other swimmers on the side.

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