The photograph, slipped into her hand by her grandmother, felt like a burning coal. Sarah stared at it, the image of a young woman with a familiar smile. A smile that was like hers. She couldn't breathe. The air in the room seemed thick, suffocating. Her throat constricted. She excused herself, muttering something about needing fresh air, and fled outside, where she leaned against a tree, trying to steady herself as the world spun.

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
😥0.272
😣0.271
own0.264
Suppressed:
la-0.679
de-0.660
a-0.281
"-0.280
(!)-0.242