sensitive - Story 128332 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d gotten the news from a text, delivered during his midday walk. Liam felt a pressure building behind his eyes. He stopped dead on the sidewalk, the sun suddenly too bright.

A passing dog barked, and the sound felt like a personal affront. His vision blurred, and he quickly ducked into the shadows of a nearby doorway.

He leaned against the cool brick, taking a shaky breath. His stomach churned. He’d known the owners of "The Cozy Corner" since he was a child, and the thought of never again smelling the familiar aroma of their apple pie was unbearable.

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