sensitive - Story 128070 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection notification blinked on her laptop screen, a small, unwelcome square. For Fiona, it was the death of a dream. She felt the tears welling up, and she bit her lip to stop them.

She was in the campus coffee shop, surrounded by the comfortable hum of conversation. But suddenly, it all felt sharp, too bright, too loud. She felt a flush rising in her cheeks.

She closed her laptop with a decisive snap. The sound echoed in the room. She stood up abruptly, knocking over her chair. Apologizing quietly, she gathered her things and fled, the warmth of the coffee shop now unbearable.

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