sensitive - Story 128516 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pre-game pep talk by Coach Riley felt like a personal betrayal. The words of encouragement, normally a source of fire, now washed over Michael like icy water. The air conditioning was on full blast, and the goosebumps rippled across his arms. He had been benched, demoted, and he'd known this day might come.

His name was called. Michael, his name was called.

“Michael, could you meet me in the supply room after the meeting?” The coach’s tone was hollow, and Michael knew what lay in wait for him. He avoided his team mates' eyes.

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