sensitive - Story 128968 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling coffee shop felt strangely muted to Robert. He sat, hunched over his mug, the list spread out before him. *Learn to code. Travel to India. Start a vegetable garden.* His hand shook as he traced the carefully drawn lines. His partner, Grace, had never spoken of these things.

He took a large gulp of coffee, the bitter taste doing nothing to clear his head. He felt a constriction in his throat, a physical block that prevented him from speaking. He felt a cold dread settling over him.

He knew she should be able to do what she wanted to do, but it felt awful, as if he was left behind. He looked up, trying to find her, and realized he wasn't able to.

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