sensitive - Story 128569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anticipation of the day had vanished. He stared at his phone, the calendar app showing two conflicting events. He felt his face heat up. One, his own birthday party, the other, his best friend's. He wondered if anyone would even remember his.

He replayed the conversation with his friend in his mind, and realized he had been an idiot. He had been too quick to concede, to downplay his own ideas. Now, the weight of his decision felt heavy.

He dragged a hand through his hair, feeling defeated. He had spent hours working on the preparations for his own party. The thought of it happening was suddenly a burden.

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