sensitive - Story 128334 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news broke during the weekly board game night. Mark’s usual boisterous laughter died in his throat as he read the Facebook post about the closing of "Burger Bliss".

A tight knot formed in his chest. The room seemed to shrink, the voices of his friends suddenly too loud, too intrusive.

He excused himself, mumbling something about needing air. Outside, the evening air felt cool against his flushed cheeks. He leaned against the porch railing, his gaze unfocused as he fought back the feeling that threatened to overwhelm him.

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