sensitive - Story 128008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The echo of the music in the gallery seemed loud, painful even. Sarah’s illustrations were whimsical, yet deeply rooted in her personal experiences. The thought of someone taking her stories and applying them to themselves was almost too much to bear.

She spotted the woman standing by the bar. The woman, eyes bright, beckoned her over. Sarah’s “Childhood Dreams” series, depicting playful animals in a fantastical forest, was now emblazoned across her ribs. Sarah’s body felt cold and the woman's excitement felt like a betrayal.

Sarah was suddenly overwhelmed with a need to escape. The air felt heavy, and the room was spinning. She turned and fled, not even offering a goodbye.

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