sensitive - Story 128753 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the length of his small apartment, the worn rug offering little comfort to his restless feet. The letter, clutched in his sweaty palm, felt like a burning coal. He knew he should burn it, toss it away, yet he couldn't. Each line of the apology was a subtle jab to the heart, a stark reminder of the youthful pain he had endured. He stopped pacing and ran a hand through his hair, a gesture that did little to calm the tremor in his fingers. He felt the phantom weight of the past pressing down on him, and the walls of his apartment seemed to be closing in.

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