sensitive - Story 128322 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of his tiny apartment. The review’s words echoed in Elias’s mind, a constant, stinging chorus. "Bland…lacking finesse…overpriced." He crumpled the paper, the sound a small explosion of frustration. He had poured every ounce of his savings into that restaurant.

He curled into the armchair, the worn upholstery offering little comfort. His hands, usually steady and precise, trembled. He pulled his knees to his chest, his gaze fixed on the flickering flame of a nearby candle.

The phone rang, its shrillness startling. It was his mother, calling to check in. "Elias, are you alright?" she asked, her voice laced with concern. He forced a chuckle, but the sound felt hollow even to him. "Just tired, Mama. Long day."

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