sensitive - Story 128746 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thud had echoed in the hollow space inside him. It had reverberated through his teeth, through his very bones. It was an intrusion, a violation of the fragile peace he'd worked so hard to maintain.

He stood frozen in the doorway, the scent of wood and freshly turned earth filling his nostrils. The neighbor, a woman usually brimming with good cheer, was standing by the ruin, her face a mask of disbelief.

He had always found her a little intimidating with her high energy. He didn't want to be around anyone right now. He instinctively took a step back, a silent retreat into the sanctuary of his home.

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