sensitive - Story 128456 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always felt a disconnect, a vague sense of unease. The DNA test had confirmed it. He didn’t belong to the family he’d known. The revelation was a blow. His breath caught in his throat.

He slammed his fist against the kitchen counter, the action fueled by a sudden, intense surge of frustration. He needed to be alone. He felt a powerful urge to go outside, to walk until his legs ached, to outrun the pain that clawed at him.

He grabbed his coat and keys, the movements mechanical and hurried. The world seemed to be moving in slow motion as he walked toward the door. Each step was a battle against the overwhelming weight in his chest.

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