sensitive - Story 128704 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office air conditioning blasted a frigid gale. Liam, however, felt a burning in his ears as his colleague, Emily, began to recount a story about summer camp. He was getting the sense that she was beginning to make a few of the same claims about the camp he attended, Camp Skylark.

He shifted uncomfortably in his chair, the fabric scratching at his skin. His breath hitched as Emily described the lake. It was exactly as he remembered.

"Oh my god," she exclaimed, her eyes widening. "You went to Skylark too?" Her excitement seemed almost cruel. He wanted to disappear.

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