sensitive - Story 128694 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You did a great job, too," the boss had said, a hollow platitude. James couldn't meet his gaze. It felt like an insult. He heard his own voice, thin and reedy, thanking him.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable chill. The air conditioning, usually a welcome relief, now felt like an icy blast. He wrapped his arms around himself.

He avoided the celebratory cake, the forced camaraderie. The thought of feigning happiness was unbearable. He excused himself, citing a pressing task, and hurried to his car. The drive home was a blur.

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