He had left the manuscript lying open on the bedside table. A deliberate act? Liam didn't know. He just stared at the page. The novel was about him. It detailed his life with Ben.

Liam felt a chill despite the warm sunshine that streamed through the bedroom window. The author, Ben, had a way with words. He captured every minute detail, every gesture, but the portrait that emerged was somehow warped, distorted.

Liam sat on the edge of the bed, his hands shaking. He felt exposed, stripped bare. He felt a deep, profound sense of discomfort. He didn't want this intimacy.

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