He'd promised himself he wouldn't look. But he had. Mark felt the familiar burn behind his eyes. His daughter, Olivia, had blocked him, yet he had managed to find the account. The profile was filled with party photos, and ones with a young man he'd never seen before.

He felt the blood drain from his face. The air in the room felt thin, as though it was being sucked out. His throat constricted. He could hardly breathe.

He slammed the laptop shut, the sound echoing in the silent house. The urge to yell, to break something, was overpowering. He clenched his fists, forcing himself to remain still, forcing himself to not make a scene.

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:
ness0.304
😞0.282
😥0.272
😣0.271
own0.264
Suppressed:
la-0.679
de-0.660
a-0.281
"-0.280
(!)-0.242