The break room felt suddenly stifling. Sam was describing a prank from Camp Timberline, and a knot formed in Ethan's stomach. His fingers fidgeted with the plastic lid of his coffee cup.

He couldn’t meet Sam’s eyes. He stared at his lukewarm coffee, the dark liquid swirling in the cup. The taste of it was suddenly acrid.

"You look a little green, Ethan," Sam said, laughter in his voice. "Camp Timberline too, huh?" The question hung in the air, heavy and unwanted.

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:
ness0.304
😞0.282
😥0.272
😣0.271
own0.264
Suppressed:
la-0.679
de-0.660
a-0.281
"-0.280
(!)-0.242