sensitive - Story 128568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the restaurant felt thick, suffocating. He watched his friend, Ben, talk animatedly, laughing easily, surrounded by a throng of people. His own party was the same night. And he hated it.

He pushed his untouched plate of food away, the clinking sound of the silverware a sharp contrast to the joyful chatter. The thought of his own party, of facing all those people, made his stomach churn.

He picked at his fingernails, avoiding eye contact. He wanted to scream. He wanted to run. He just wanted it all to be over.

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