sensitive - Story 128708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the break room felt thick, like a physical weight on Oliver’s chest. The smell of microwave popcorn seemed overwhelming. Across the small table, Chloe was excitedly describing Camp Willow Creek, which was the name of the camp he had attended.

He found himself struggling to swallow. Each word of the story was a pinprick, a reminder of something he wanted to forget. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee.

"So, you went to Willow Creek too, right?" Chloe asked, her voice bright. He couldn't meet her eyes. He just shook his head, unable to speak.

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