sensitive - Story 128630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a sudden pressure in his chest. His history teacher, Ms. Lee, had followed his account. He'd never been vocal about his problems but it was all there in his posts. He immediately deactivated his account and went dark.

The next day in class, he sat in a daze. He couldn't focus on the lesson. All he could think about was her knowing his thoughts. He made a huge effort to make himself invisible.

When she asked him a question, his voice was shaky, and he couldn't formulate a response. He felt sick, and asked to be excused from the class. The world seemed to be closing in around him.

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