sensitive - Story 128624 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, god," Alex whispered, his face burning. Mrs. Rodriguez, his choir teacher, was now among his followers on Instagram. He’d always felt so comfortable around her, sharing a similar passion for music. He’d even felt a bit of... a pull. He felt his cheeks burn with embarrassment.

Suddenly, her encouraging words in rehearsals felt different. He felt every mistake he made. He choked during a solo, the notes escaping him. He could feel her concerned gaze on him, and he hated it. He started to detach.

He stopped going to rehearsals, making vague excuses about homework. He hid in his room, listening to music with the door closed, and avoided all contact. The joy of singing, once a refuge, now felt tainted.

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