sensitive - Story 128998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headline screamed at him: “From Application to Inspiration: A Glimpse into the Mind of a Successful Student.” And then his name. He slumped back in his chair, a wave of nausea washing over him. The essay, the one where he talked about the loneliness he felt in high school, was now a public monument to his vulnerabilities.

He rubbed his eyes, trying to clear the fog of dread that had descended. He hadn't thought about that essay, about that raw, awkward version of himself, in years. Now, it was being presented as something inspirational.

He felt a deep sense of unease. He wanted to scream. He felt like he was being forced to relive a past he desperately wanted to forget. He felt the urgent need to retreat.

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