sensitive - Story 128777 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the manor house, mirroring the storm brewing inside Elias. His sister, Amelia, sat beside him, her face a carefully constructed facade of calm. The house, their childhood playground, now felt like a cage.

The lawyer, a stern man with a perpetually furrowed brow, cleared his throat. The will reading was underway. Elias felt his pulse quicken. He gripped the edge of the chair, his knuckles white.

“Amelia, you are to inherit the family's vineyards and the lucrative wine business." The lawyer continued to list assets, each sentence a blow to Elias’s already fragile composure.

"Elias," he said finally, looking directly at him, "you will inherit the family library."

Elias swallowed hard, the corners of his mouth twitching. The library was filled with his mother’s favourite books, the same books she had used to read to him before bed.

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