sensitive - Story 128749 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The noise had been a physical blow. It was the sound of something ending, of something precious lost. It had the quality of a sudden, unexpected slap. His stomach lurched, and he felt a wave of nausea.

His neighbor, Frank, was already out there, shaking his head and surveying the wreckage. The image of Frank’s usually jovial face crumpled in dismay sent a pang of something akin to pain through him.

He needed to get away, to be alone, to process the event, but he couldn't leave his house. He turned to the window, and stared at the mess for what seemed like hours. The world felt muted, and heavy.

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