sensitive - Story 128843 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Could you keep it down?" The gruff voice was a physical assault. David's shoulders slumped. He felt a blush creep up his neck. He hadn't even realized he was playing the music that loud.

He mumbled an apology, averting his gaze. The words felt clumsy, inadequate. His neighbor, Mr. Petrov, stood silhouetted in the doorway, his disapproval a tangible thing.

David rushed to turn the volume knob down, fumbling with the controls. He felt the familiar heat building behind his eyes. He wished he could just disappear. The air in the hallway felt suddenly thick, suffocating.

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