sensitive - Story 128290 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't thought about him in years. The request felt like a physical intrusion. His hands went clammy as he stared at the screen. James. He clenched his fists, struggling to stay composed.

He retreated to the bathroom, splashing cold water on his face. He felt like he was back in the school yard, helpless and exposed.

He looked at his reflection, the lines of his face suddenly etched with the weight of the past. He didn't want to engage, didn't want to relive any of it. He needed to disappear.

He dried his face and returned to his computer, and blocked the request.

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