sensitive - Story 128417 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colours of the art gallery seemed to mock Arthur as he found the wallet by a display. The sharp edges of the gallery were a contrast to his own softness, to the turmoil that had been churning inside him all week.

Inside, he found a substantial amount of cash. His throat constricted, making it hard to breathe. He felt a familiar hollowness in his chest.

He envisioned the owner’s despair, the panic that would grip them. He knew, intimately, what that felt like.

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