sensitive - Story 128492 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Thomas, hunched over his breakfast, picked at his toast. The newspaper lay open beside his plate, the article about the "revolutionary" new auto-watering plant system glaring at him. He’d conceived something almost identical, but his application was still languishing in review. His stomach twisted with a familiar ache.

He couldn't meet his wife's eyes as she chattered happily about the weather. Every cheerful word grated on his nerves. He scraped his chair back, the sound echoing in the sudden silence.

“I’m going out,” he mumbled, avoiding her gaze. He needed air, needed to be away from the cheerful facade of a life that felt like a cruel joke. He pulled his jacket on with jerky movements, the fabric feeling rough against his skin.

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