sensitive - Story 128280 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked into the warehouse, the new location of his role, which involved a shift away from the quiet of the library and into the chaos of logistics. John felt a hollowness in his chest.

The noise of the forklifts felt like an assault. He flinched at every loud clang. His hands shook as he sorted packages.

He had always found solace in the ordered rows of books. Now, surrounded by chaos, he felt lost. Even the friendly greetings from his new colleagues felt overwhelming. He spent his breaks outside, trying to find some semblance of peace in the fresh air.

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