sensitive - Story 128616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, here we go,” he muttered under his breath, taking a deep breath. His hands were clammy as he approached the podium. The weight of his father’s impending retirement pressed down on him. The air seemed to thicken.

He glanced at his mother, who had a small, sad smile playing on her lips. They all knew this day was coming, but he still felt a pang of…something. He wasn't sure what it was. He was just here, standing in front of everyone.

He began to speak, his voice catching in his throat. He tried to remember the funny stories, the inside jokes, but all he could remember were the moments when his father was distant, preoccupied. He finished the speech, and quickly returned to his seat.

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