sensitive - Story 128424 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification popped up on Liam's screen, the subject line a blunt instrument to the gut: "High School Reunion Invitation." He nearly jumped out of his chair. He felt a pressure building behind his eyes.

He replayed snippets of the past in his head, the constant feeling of being overlooked, of being… wrong. His fingers tightened into fists. He wanted to scream.

He clicked the delete button. Then, hesitated. Then clicked it again, harder this time. He knew that the very act of deleting it would make him think about it for days.

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