sensitive - Story 128560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright, cheerful colors of the pet store seemed to amplify the already pounding headache that had begun to throb in Oliver’s temples. He watched as Liam enthusiastically looked at puppies. "Imagine, Oliver! Fetch in the park, cuddling on the couch!"

Oliver felt a cold wave wash over him. His stomach churned. The noise, the lights, the sheer abundance of energy in the store was overwhelming. He just wanted to go home. He closed his eyes. "I… I can't," he whispered, a tremor in his voice.

Liam stopped and looked at him, his face falling. "Are you okay, Oliver?" Liam's voice sounded far away. Oliver turned and practically ran out of the store, the bright lights seeming to chase him.

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