sensitive - Story 128969 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty gallery space echoed with his silence. He found the list while helping clean out the house after the death of his partner. *Learn to play the cello. Take a pottery class. See the Grand Canyon.* He felt a physical blow, a stunning wave of sorrow.

He moved about the room, his movements slow and clumsy. He had never known of her dreams. He now felt as if the meaning of their whole relationship had changed.

He clenched his fists, the paper crumpling in his grip. The weight of regret pressed down on him, suffocating, unbearable.

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