He didn't recognize the paintings at first. They were his, yes, but altered, re-contextualized. The gallery, a slick, modern space, felt hostile. The original meaning, the deep personal importance, were gone.

His legs felt unsteady. He gripped the back of a chair, his knuckles white. The air grew heavy, like a suffocating blanket.

He felt the sting of tears behind his eyes. He quickly turned, escaping the gallery. The cool city air offered little comfort.

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