sensitive - Story 128517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the team banner, which usually inspired pride, now felt garish, overwhelming. Liam felt a cold sweat break out across his forehead. His hands trembled as he tightened the laces of his boots, the leather rough against his skin. He had spent his whole life dreaming of this; yet he had made the wrong call that cost his team the championship.

He saw the coach make his way towards him. He felt every eye in the room on him.

“Liam, can you give me a moment in the equipment room?" The coach's voice was firm, but the slight tremor in his hand betrayed his resolve. Liam was done.

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