sensitive - Story 128078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The loud music from the concert venue throbbed in Elara’s chest. She was meeting “MetalHeadMike,” the guy who’d helped her discover her love for heavy metal. Now she knew he was in the same city.

She scanned the crowd, feeling like a target. The vibrant energy felt intimidating. The thought of being exposed, of disappointing him, sent a wave of nausea over her. She gripped her phone, her fingers numb.

A tall figure with long hair and a band t-shirt approached, his expression eager. Elara’s mouth went dry. She could barely manage a small nod. She felt an overwhelming urge to run away. The thought of being seen was terrifying.

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