The ocean breeze felt chilly against Olivia's skin as she stood near the pier. She'd finally met up with Sam, her childhood playmate, at their old beach. Sam looked at her with polite confusion, saying, "I don't think we've met." Olivia swallowed hard. Every wave that crashed against the shore seemed to whisper a mocking reminder of lost memories. The setting sun, once a shared spectacle, now felt detached, like a painting. She turned away quickly, her chest tight.

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:
ness0.304
😞0.282
😥0.272
😣0.271
own0.264
Suppressed:
la-0.679
de-0.660
a-0.281
"-0.280
(!)-0.242