The phone felt heavy in Clara's hand. The news, delivered in a strained voice by her mother, settled in her chest like a stone. She’d been so careful, so guarded. Now this. She quietly placed the phone back on the hook, the click echoing in the sudden silence of the house. She went into the bathroom and stared at herself in the mirror. The woman looking back, she hardly recognized. She splashed cold water on her face, but the coolness didn't help. The world seemed to wobble.

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:
ness0.304
😞0.282
πŸ˜₯0.272
😣0.271
own0.264
Suppressed:
la-0.679
de-0.660
a-0.281
"-0.280
(!)-0.242