sensitive - Story 128480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the package tucked away on the porch. The address was unfamiliar, a name that felt like a stranger: "Ms. Clara Bloom." The edges of his vision felt like they were shrinking, like everything was closing in.

He hadn't been able to leave the house all day, the walls felt oppressive. Each small noise, the hum of the refrigerator, the drip of the faucet, scraped at his nerves.

He didn't bother bringing the box inside.

He opened the front door, stepping out into the evening and closing it behind him. He needed to get away.

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