sensitive - Story 128486 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tried to remain stoic as he approached the house. John's jaw was clenched. He felt a constant pressure building behind his eyes. He didn't want to let the guys on site see him like this.

The demolition crew were already at work. The sound of the machines tearing through the structure was like a physical assault. He clenched his fists, trying to find some anchor.

He closed his eyes for a moment, trying to block out the sounds. The memory of his father’s workshop, the smell of sawdust and varnish, the warmth of the wood burning stove. A single tear escaped. He wiped it away quickly.

He turned and walked away, his shoulders slumped.

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