sensitive - Story 128994 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The article, with his application essay showcased as a model, seemed to vibrate with a cruel energy on Daniel's phone. His stomach clenched. It was the one about his struggles with anxiety. He felt a profound, suffocating vulnerability. He felt exposed and defenceless.

He had reread the essay a hundred times when writing it, perfecting every word to get into his dream college. He never expected this. Now, strangers would dissect it, judge him. He felt exposed, stripped bare.

He threw the phone on the bed, burying his face in his hands. It felt like being trapped in a glass cage. The sound of his own shallow breaths filled his ears.

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