sensitive - Story 128300 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d bought a new shirt, a vibrant color that made him feel alive. Now, standing alone in his apartment, the shirt felt like a weight, a symbol of everything that wouldn't happen. The party, the one thing that had lifted his spirits, wasn’t happening. His carefully nurtured hope had been extinguished, leaving him feeling lost.

He paced the length of his living room, his steps restless and uneven. The air felt thick, difficult to breathe. His usual resilience, the thing that helped him through the rough spots, had completely disappeared.

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture. He hated this feeling, the hollowness and the ache. He just wanted to be done.

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