sensitive - Story 128512 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the gym, mirroring the storm brewing inside Leo. He hunched his shoulders, pulling his jacket tighter. The scent of stale sweat and disinfectant, usually a comfort, now felt cloying. He knew the news was coming. The whispers after practice, the averted glances. He'd been struggling with his serves all week.

He saw Coach Johnson approaching, his expression unreadable. Leo couldn't quite meet his eyes. Each step the coach took closer, the more his face became flushed.

“Leo, can we talk outside for a moment?” The coach’s voice was gentle, but the offer of a private chat outside was a blatant tell. His fingers felt numb.

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