sensitive - Story 128038 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The publisher’s representative clinked glasses with her. “To success!” he boomed. “'Eleanor Vance: The Unseen Woman' is already topping the charts!” Eleanor forced a smile, her jaw tight. The champagne tasted like ash.

She excused herself from the celebratory lunch, suddenly needing air. The restaurant, filled with the murmur of conversations and the clinking of silverware, felt oppressive. The book revealed the details of her troubled marriage, her difficult family relationships, the personal demons she had fought for years.

She felt a deep sense of betrayal, a profound sense of loss of control. Walking away from the restaurant, she felt a strong, physical urge to run. The city air felt heavy and thick. She just wanted to disappear.

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