sensitive - Story 128458 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The test results landed like a bomb. Ethan had wanted answers, but the truth, unearthed from the depths of his DNA, was more than he could bear. His mouth went dry. His vision swam.

He stood in the middle of his living room, the space suddenly feeling alien and unfamiliar. He felt the need to get away, to flee. The framed photographs on the wall, documenting years of supposed happiness, seemed to taunt him.

He abruptly turned, grabbing his car keys. The car, a reliable friend, seemed to offer a momentary escape. The open road beckoned, a vast expanse of freedom and uncertainty stretching before 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