sensitive - Story 128729 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The damp air of the basement clung to Ethan's skin. He read the letter again, the handwriting so familiar, yet so alien. His father's resignation, tucked away in a box of old photographs. The job he thought he enjoyed, he now hated. He felt overwhelmed. He felt a sudden, profound sense of isolation.

He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands. The old, musty scent of the basement pressed in on him. He felt a chill run down his spine. He felt alone. He felt a great longing.

He just wanted the feelings to stop.

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