sensitive - Story 128618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room was filled with the smell of expensive perfume and the sound of polite chatter, but it all seemed muffled to him. He could feel his pulse racing as he walked towards the podium. He'd put this off as long as he could. He felt…off.

He looked over at his father, who was laughing with some colleagues. He tried to focus, to calm himself. He wished he could just disappear. He felt like he didn't belong.

He started the speech, focusing on the words, trying to make the right sounds. He spoke about his father's integrity, his dedication, his sense of humor. But he couldn't help but notice the small cracks in his voice. He sat back down.

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