sensitive - Story 128985 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Condo conversion,” the landlord’s voice boomed, completely oblivious. Michael felt his stomach twist. He could barely meet the man’s eye. The blood rushed to his face.

He retreated to his studio apartment, the cramped space feeling suddenly suffocating. He pulled his sketchbooks off the shelf, rifling through them, searching for… what? Something to anchor him. He tried to focus on his work, the familiar feel of the charcoal against the paper, but his hand trembled.

He abandoned his art, collapsing onto his mattress. The air in the room felt thick and heavy, pressing down on him. The silence of the building, once a comfort, now felt oppressive.

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