sensitive - Story 128926 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This can't be happening," Marcus muttered, his voice barely audible. He ran a hand through his already disheveled hair. His hands felt clammy, his stomach churned. The doctor had just confirmed it, and the world seemed to tilt on its axis. He wanted to scream.

A young man across from him, in a wheelchair, spoke up, his voice calm. “I know it’s a lot to process. But… I get it.”

Marcus looked at him, searching his face. He noticed the same guardedness in the other man’s eyes, the same subtle tensing of the jaw. He didn’t know how to respond.

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