sensitive - Story 128075 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling farmer’s market felt like an assault on Clara’s senses. The aroma of fresh produce, the chatter of vendors, the crowds – it was all too much. She was supposed to meet "BookwormBen" by the sunflowers. They'd bonded over their shared love of old books. He lived in the same city.

She clutched her worn copy of Wuthering Heights, her knuckles white. She found the sunflowers, a splash of vibrant yellow against the gray sky, but her vision blurred. She hated the feeling of being exposed.

A man with glasses and a kind face approached, holding a well-worn copy of the same book. "Clara?" he asked, his voice gentle. She averted her gaze, her cheeks flushed, unable to meet his eyes. The weight of his presence was almost 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