sensitive - Story 128444 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the room felt thick, oppressive. Daniel’s journal, the one with the plain, unassuming cover, was on the floor beside the bed, opened to the page detailing his unrequited feelings for Sarah. He could not breathe.

His roommate, Mark, was humming, fixing a cup of instant noodles. The casualness of it was almost worse.

Daniel wanted to scream, to lash out, to break something. But he couldn't. He couldn't even meet Mark's eyes. He felt a profound sense of humiliation washing over him. He felt like he was drowning in the confines of the room, like someone had stolen his oxygen.

He mumbled an excuse and darted out of the room, slamming the door behind him.

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