sensitive - Story 128286 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let out a frustrated sound, and tossed his phone across the room. The friend request from Tyler was a punch to the gut. It brought back a flood of unwanted memories. He hated it.

He sat on the edge of the bed, feeling utterly depleted. He wanted to go back to when the world was a safe place. He felt like he wanted to curl into a ball and hide.

He couldn't understand why, after years of silence, Tyler would want to connect with him. He felt exposed, vulnerable, as if the past was reaching out to grab him again.

He took a slow, deep breath, trying to regain control. He got up and started washing the dishes.

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