sensitive - Story 128766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d almost forgotten about it, the little crabapple tree he’d planted with his now-deceased grandfather. But the news had hit him hard, an unexpected blow to the gut. The tree was gone.

His steps were heavy as he approached the spot. He saw the place where it had been and a wave of sadness came over him. His lips were pressed tightly together. He clenched and unclenched his fists. He kept his gaze fixed on the ground, avoiding the stares of any passersby.

He felt a flush creep up his neck. He couldn’t speak, words had failed him. He started walking. He didn't know where he was going, he just needed to leave.

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