“Are you always like this?” The accusatory question hung in the air, a barb. Mark recoiled, his face burning. He hadn’t meant to cause any disruption.

His neighbor, Ms. Chen, looked at him with impatience. He tried to explain, to offer a reasonable explanation, but the words caught in his throat.

He felt a flush creep up his neck, and a strange tingling in his fingertips. He felt the urge to flee, to disappear from her gaze. He simply wanted to be left alone.

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