sensitive - Story 128672 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d known Dr. Chen for years, ever since the undergrad research project that sparked his interest. Now, the news crackled in the air like static electricity, zapping him. Dr. Chen’s departure meant he would have to find a new supervisor, and the thought was a lead weight in his stomach.

His breath hitched as he stared at the announcement on the university website. It felt as though someone had punched him, not hard, but enough to make the world go a bit fuzzy around the edges.

He fiddled with the zipper on his jacket, pulling it up and down, up and down, a repetitive motion that did little to calm the internal tremors. He pictured Dr. Chen’s easy smile, the encouraging way he always phrased his critiques.

He wanted to scream, to lash out, to do anything other than sit here and absorb this information that felt like a personal betrayal.

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