sensitive - Story 128426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the invitation, the bold typeface screaming at him. He felt his face flush. He was a successful lawyer now, respected, admired. But the image of himself as a gangly, awkward teenager was always lurking, ready to be unearthed.

He remembered the constant feeling of inadequacy, the fear of judgment. He felt a deep-seated resistance against reliving those feelings. His throat tightened.

He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and tossed the invitation into the trash. Maybe he would find a good excuse to not attend. Maybe a work conflict…

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