sensitive - Story 128100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of her grandmother's perfume, lingering in the air of the spare bedroom, triggered a cascade of unwanted emotions. The room, crammed with furniture she hadn't touched since moving in, felt simultaneously cramped and empty.

Her parents’ unspoken expectations, their quiet observation of her every move, pressed down on her like a physical weight. The thought of facing them at dinner filled her with dread.

She felt a hot flush creep up her neck. She squeezed her eyes shut, wishing she could simply vanish. The world, and her own mind, were too loud.

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