sensitive - Story 128368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning had started poorly. He had spilled his coffee, missed the bus, and now this. He wasn't surprised, but still, the ache resonated deep inside of him.

He trudged towards the mailbox, feeling the familiar weight of disappointment. There it was. A card, tucked away, a splash of color in a sea of white envelopes.

He stood frozen, the wind whipping around him. The unsigned message felt like a secret insult. He took a deep, shaky breath, and turned and walked back into his apartment, the door slamming behind him. The silence was deafening.

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