sensitive - Story 128404 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence inside the house was profound, broken only by the creak of the floorboards under Liam’s feet. His brother, Finn, was talking a mile a minute, rambling about potential renovations and investment opportunities. Liam could barely keep up.

He felt a strange restlessness, a buzzing energy that kept him from staying still. He kept pacing, touching things, running his hand over the worn surface of the dining table. He couldn’t bear to look at the photos on the mantelpiece, the faces of his grandparents staring back at him.

He felt a powerful urge to run, to escape the confines of the house, the memories that clung to every surface like a shroud. He felt overwhelmed, swamped by the weight of everything.

“Liam, are you even listening?” Finn asked, his voice sharp. Liam just shook his head, unable to meet his gaze.

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