sensitive - Story 128339 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn’t know how to react. A gasp escaped his lips, as the email from “The Hungry Hound” appeared in his inbox. David blinked, and reread the stark words, “Final Day of Service: Next Sunday.”

He slumped back in his chair, the world tilting slightly. The thought of losing his Friday night routine of burgers and fries felt like a personal loss.

His chest tightened. He sat there, staring at the screen, the familiar notification now appearing alien and painful. He felt his eyelids getting heavy, almost as if he was about to cry.

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