sensitive - Story 128786 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The website was showing a 3D tour. Marcus, unable to look away, began to navigate it. The house looked utterly foreign. Every angle, every room, the new landscaping.

His stomach clenched. He knew he should feel happy for his parents, that it was a practical decision. But all he felt was this deep, unfamiliar sense of unease. He felt trapped.

He kept clicking, moving from room to room, the camera’s perspective jarring and unsettling. Finally, he slammed the laptop closed. He stood up, pacing his room, the image of his childhood home imprinted on the back of his eyelids.

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