sensitive - Story 128360 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic felt like a mausoleum of memories, the silence broken only by the scratching of the mouse that lived there. Michael, usually a picture of stoicism, felt a strange unease as he discovered a box filled with hand-painted ornaments. Each ornament, a tiny work of art, represented a forgotten Christmas.

He picked up a small snowman ornament, its painted smile mocking his own inner turmoil. He felt a rush of heat, his face burning. He started to hyperventilate. The air in the attic was suddenly too thick, too heavy.

He dropped the ornament with a clatter. His chest ached. He fled from the attic, wanting nothing more than to escape the weight of the past.

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