sensitive - Story 128328 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright lights of the television studio felt too intense. Chef Ronan had been scheduled for a cooking demonstration, but the review, which had called his latest creations "childish", had obliterated his confidence.

He stood in the wings, his hands clammy. He could feel the eyes of the audience, though he couldn't see them. The usually familiar scent of the studio – cooking oil and excited anticipation – now felt like a taunt.

He considered walking out. The host called his name, and he froze. A bead of sweat trickled down his temple. He stepped forward, his legs suddenly heavy.

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