sensitive - Story 128759 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of lavender from the bath oil did nothing to calm the shaking in his hands. He'd decided to try to relax, but now, he felt trapped. The letter, a thin white ghost on the counter, loomed over him. The words, intended to heal, were like shards of glass. A shiver ran through him. He sank into the hot water, but the heat offered no comfort. He felt as exposed and vulnerable as if he was standing naked in the center of the world.

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