sensitive - Story 128514 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight room's metallic tang seemed to suffocate Mark. He gripped the water bottle tighter, knuckles white. The clanging of the weights, a symphony of effort and achievement, now felt like a brutal indictment. He had lost his starting position, his role shrinking with each passing game. The disappointment gnawed at him.

He saw Coach Davis gesturing toward him. His stomach twisted into a knot. "Mark, could you come in the office, please?" The coach's eyes were filled with an emotion Mark didn't want to decipher.

His throat felt tight, and his ears were ringing. He couldn't help but let a tear escape his eye as he took a step forward.

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