sensitive - Story 128755 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated on the table, and Liam stared at it, a tremor starting in his jaw. The letter had arrived that morning, and the news of its arrival sat in his belly like lead. The words, so carefully chosen, felt clumsy and inadequate. He glanced at the phone again; a text from his friend. He usually would've jumped on the text, but the world had contracted around him, the space between him and his own thoughts a tight, suffocating distance. He felt like he wanted to scream.

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