sensitive - Story 128466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“We need the money, David,” her father had said, his voice unusually strained. “The painting…it’s just a painting.” Before, he had always adored his grandfather's painting, his face lighting up with a nostalgic joy. Now, its worth was all that mattered.

David felt a coldness wash over him, as if all his feelings had been turned to ice. He walked away from the painting, the colorful depiction of his grandfather’s childhood home, without a word. He went outside, the crisp air doing little to soothe the tightness in his chest.

He couldn't meet his father’s eyes. He wished he could, but his legs had turned to lead, rooted to the spot.

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