sensitive - Story 128939 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been expecting the call, the inevitable news that would shatter his carefully constructed world. When the delivery arrived – a simple bunch of lavender – he felt a strange, detached calm. No card. No explanation.

He carefully cut the stems, the scent of the lavender filling the air. He filled a vase with water. His hands were steady. He felt a deep weariness, a profound sense of loss that threatened to overwhelm him.

He sat on the couch, surrounded by the fragrant blooms, and waited. The silence was his companion.

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