sensitive - Story 128093 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of freshly brewed coffee, usually a comfort, now felt like a punch to the gut. Sarah stood in the doorway of the kitchen, hands clasped tightly in front of her. Her father was at the stove, humming an upbeat tune.

"Morning, sleepyhead," her father said, beaming. "Coffee's ready." She wanted to run, to hide, but forced a smile.

"Thanks, Dad," she replied, her voice a little too high-pitched. She moved slowly, carefully, as though navigating a minefield. The simplest compliment, a casual observation - all of them felt like criticisms. Every gesture, every look, felt like judgment.

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