sensitive - Story 128804 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam slammed the door behind him, the force rattling the paintings on the walls. The information, a casual mention from his aunt, had upended his carefully constructed world. He paced his apartment, each footstep a thump against the hardwood floor. He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands, a frustrated gesture that usually soothed him. But today, it brought no comfort. His breath came in shallow, choppy gasps. He needed air, needed to escape the confines of his own mind.

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