sensitive - Story 128049 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The demolition was the worst. It sounded like the world was ending. Her hands shook, and she spilled her coffee all over the kitchen counter. She could feel the pressure in her head, a throbbing headache that wouldn't go away.

She retreated to her bedroom, pulling the curtains shut. Even with the windows closed, the sounds penetrated her sanctuary. She felt a cold dread creeping into her bones. She wanted to scream.

She started to cry, silent tears streaming down her face. She felt utterly helpless. The only thing she could do was wait.

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