sensitive - Story 128278 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The transition to IT was harder than he’d anticipated. He felt a deep ache that started in his stomach and spread through his limbs. David hated the open-plan office.

The constant noise was a distraction. It felt like everyone could see him.

The first few days, he found himself eating lunch in his car, the solitude a desperate comfort. The constant pressure of new tasks and deadlines felt almost unbearable. Even the simplest question from a colleague could send his heart racing. He had been so content with his previous role, in logistics, which was all routine and order.

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