sensitive - Story 128628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news washed over David in a cold wave. Ms. Garcia, his science teacher, was now on his friend list. David had written his opinions of her teaching, how boring it was. He was mortified. He deleted her.

In class, he found himself staring at the floor. He couldn't meet her eyes. Her questions, her explanations, felt like a personal attack. He was now avoiding his lab partner.

He began failing the pop quizzes. He couldn't focus. All he could think about was her seeing his unfiltered thoughts. He couldn't go to the bathroom during class without feeling her gaze on the back of his neck.

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