sensitive - Story 128558 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the small apartment, but it couldn't mask the tension that hung in the air. David, his face flushed, was passionately arguing for a ferret. “They’re playful, intelligent, and hardly take up any space!”

Michael stared out the window, avoiding his roommate’s gaze. The weight of David’s words settled on his chest, constricting his breath. “I… I’m not sure,” he managed, his voice barely audible.

David, deflated, stopped his presentation. “Why not, Michael? It would be good for us.” Michael gripped the edges of the window frame, the wood cold against his fingertips. He felt a sting behind his eyes and turned away, silently.

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