sensitive - Story 128518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright lights of the hockey rink, usually a beacon of excitement, now felt blinding, unforgiving. David slumped against the boards, his shoulders slumped. The sounds of the skates scraping against the ice, the crack of the puck, the cheers of the crowd – all the familiar sounds of the game – now felt like a taunt.

He looked over to see Coach Wilson heading straight for him. All of the other players were at practice.

“David, could you come over here for a sec?” The coach's words felt like a shot of ice down his spine. He slowly took off his helmet.

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