sensitive - Story 128565 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun, usually a welcome guest, felt harsh on Leo’s skin. He felt exposed, vulnerable. His party was a small gathering, a quiet affair. His friend, Ethan, was throwing a loud, boisterous event, the announcement of which had seemed to deflate Leo's excitement.

He ran his fingers over the meticulously arranged snacks, a carefully curated selection of his favorite things. They felt wrong, inadequate. He longed to be out on a boat, far away from all this.

He saw his reflection in the window, and he didn't recognise the person staring back. His shoulders slumped, and he felt a wave of emptiness wash over 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