sensitive - Story 128705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt impossibly long. Michael clenched his jaw, listening to the casual chatter about Camp Harmony. His new coworker, Jessica, was going on and on about the camp's legendary campfire.

He focused on the numbers, willing the ascent to end. His palms were already slick with sweat. He swallowed, the action doing little to ease the feeling of being closed in.

"Seriously, Michael," Jessica said, her voice cheerful, "you didn’t go to Harmony too? That's wild!" The corners of his eyes began to prickle.

"Yeah," he finally croaked. "Years ago." He wished he could teleport out of here.

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