"Sorry, son," the coach had said. The words echoed in Ben's ears, a hollow, empty sound. He sat in the dugout, the weight of his unachieved dreams pressing down on him. The air tasted stale, and his mouth was dry. He avoided making eye contact with anyone.

He carefully took off his helmet, a gesture of defeat. He saw the other boys celebrating. The joy they felt was like an alien language.

He wanted to scream at them, tell them what he was feeling, but the words would not leave his lips.

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:
ness0.304
😞0.282
😥0.272
😣0.271
own0.264
Suppressed:
la-0.679
de-0.660
a-0.281
"-0.280
(!)-0.242