sensitive - Story 128419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the deserted library echoed around Ben as he held the wallet, the cold leather making his fingers numb. The past week, like a dark cloud, had been hard to shake.

He opened it, and the sight of the cash made his stomach turn. He fought the urge to close it immediately.

He imagined the owner's relief, but also their vulnerability, their reliance on the money. He felt a deep, unexpected empathy.

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