sensitive - Story 128017 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a lead weight. My best friend, David, was becoming a member of the Baha'i faith. His words about unity and peace, while seemingly harmless, felt like an accusation.

I found myself picking at the threads on my jeans, unable to meet his gaze. My throat felt thick, making it hard to swallow. The cafe buzzed with the usual sounds, but they were now an unbearable cacophony.

I offered a weak smile, excusing myself to "use the restroom." In the cramped space, I splashed cold water on my face, trying to compose myself. The mirror reflected a stranger's face.

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