sensitive - Story 128553 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh fluorescent lights of the grocery store seemed to amplify the internal pressure building in Liam. He gripped the grocery cart handle tightly as his roommate, David, chattered animatedly about hamsters. “Imagine, Liam! Tiny claws, cheek pouches, little wheels…”

Liam felt a familiar ache forming behind his temples. "I'm just not sure," he said, avoiding David's expectant gaze. The brightly lit aisles were becoming oppressive, and he felt a desperate need to escape.

David’s smile faltered. "Come on, Liam. It'll be good for you! Something to take care of." He gestured towards the pet food aisle. Liam abruptly excused himself, muttering something about needing to find the eggs. He practically ran, the fluorescent lights blurring through unshed tears.

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