sensitive - Story 128077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white walls of the art gallery felt suffocating to Finn. He was supposed to meet "AbstractAria" by the large sculpture in the center. They bonded over art and emotional expression, both of them finding comfort in the distance of a screen. Her being local was a nightmare.

He wandered the gallery, feeling exposed, his breath shallow. The pretentious chatter of the attendees grated on his nerves. He felt a deep-seated discomfort, as if everyone was judging him. He wanted to scream.

He saw her then, standing before the sculpture, her back to him. He recognized the way she moved, her posture. The weight in his chest grew. He hesitated, paralyzed. He felt the blood drain from his face.

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