sensitive - Story 128856 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Climb Mount Kilimanjaro.” The words jumped out at Leo, their audacity a stark contrast to his own inertia. He sat in his father’s study, the room filled with the scent of old books and pipe tobacco. He felt an intense pressure building behind his eyes.

He ran a hand through his hair, dislodging a stray lock. He needed to be alone. He wanted to go home.

He closed his eyes for a moment, trying to find some form of composure. "Learn to sail." He imagined his father, laughing, taking off on a boat. A sudden chill ran through him.

He stood, pushing the chair away with a clatter. His chest felt heavy, as if weighted down. He had to escape this room.

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