sensitive - Story 128747 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sheer volume of the impact made his ears ring. A feeling of internal chaos took hold of him, mirroring the scene unfolding outside. The tree, their neighbor's pride and joy, now sprawled in a heap.

He felt a tightness in his chest, a sense of being overwhelmed. The broken branches looked like a broken heart. He wasn't usually so dramatic, but today, everything was magnified.

He needed space, to be alone. He retreated to his bedroom, closing the door firmly behind him. He needed to be by himself, and needed quiet, to get control of himself again.

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