sensitive - Story 128520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of chlorine, usually a comfort, now felt suffocating to Kevin. He stared blankly at the water, which seemed to reflect his own fragmented image. The splash of the other swimmers, the shouted instructions of the coach – all seemed distant, like sounds from another world. He had missed the time.

He heard his name called. Kevin, Kevin.

“Kevin, could you step out of the water for a moment, please?" The coach's tone was gentle, but the unspoken words hung between them like a shroud. He slowly climbed out of the pool.

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