sensitive - Story 128344 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless buzzing of the mosquitoes was driving Michael mad. This yard sale was torture. He wished he'd stayed home. He kept replaying the events of the morning in his head, each memory a fresh stab. He felt a sense of suffocation he couldn't shake.

Suddenly, a flash of recognition. He spotted the bear. He’d never thought he’d see him again. Stuffed with straw, missing an ear, it was still unmistakably "Mr. Snuggles." He felt his stomach clench.

He walked toward it as if in a trance. He remembered the feel of the soft fur against his cheek, the security it had provided. He felt the weight of the past pressing down on him. "How much?" he mumbled, his voice catching in his throat.

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