sensitive - Story 128043 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic thudding was a constant assault on Clara’s ears. It felt as if her own heart was now pounding in time with the construction work. She sat curled on the sofa, her arms wrapped tightly around herself. Her breath hitched.

She'd baked cookies this morning, the aroma meant to fill the house with warmth and comfort. Now, the scent of cinnamon and sugar was overwhelmed by the metallic tang of the construction site. She wanted to scream at them to stop, but the thought of confrontation paralyzed her.

She closed her eyes, trying to block out the noise, but the sounds invaded her mind. She pictured the house next door, imagining all the changes. Everything felt wrong, off-balance. She took a deep breath, trying to calm the overwhelming feeling of being exposed.

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