sensitive - Story 128566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the invitation in his hand, the glossy paper a slick surface he couldn't grasp. A nervous flutter began in his chest, making it hard to take a breath. It was for Leo's party. He was supposed to be excited. He was supposed to be happy for his friend. But the news felt like a rock in his stomach.

He traced the elegant calligraphy of the invitation to his own party, the one scheduled for the same night. A dull ache began behind his eyes. He should have told his friend about his own party sooner.

He folded the invitation carefully, as if handling something fragile, and then put it away with the others. The room suddenly felt smaller, the air thick with unspoken words.

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