The weight in her chest was crushing. The journal, with the embossed tree design, was open on the floor. Her roommate, Emily, was applying makeup at her vanity.

She had written about her struggles with self-doubt. It was all there, laid out for anyone to see.

A single tear traced a path down her cheek, and she quickly wiped it away. She was suddenly consumed with the desire to disappear.

“You okay?” Emily asked, not looking at her.

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:
ness0.304
😞0.282
😥0.272
😣0.271
own0.264
Suppressed:
la-0.679
de-0.660
a-0.281
"-0.280
(!)-0.242