sensitive - Story 128066 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No," Clara whispered, the word barely audible. The rejection letter lay in front of her, the words blurring through unshed tears. She felt a sharp throb in her temples.

She had spent countless hours crafting the perfect essay, perfecting her application. Now, this. Her carefully constructed facade of optimism crumbled. She felt exposed, vulnerable, stripped of her ambition.

She ran her hand through her hair, a gesture of frustration. She needed to escape. The walls of her small room suddenly felt like they were closing in. She grabbed her bag and fled, slamming the door behind her.

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