sensitive - Story 128123 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Ugh, this is just... great," Maya muttered under her breath, her voice barely a whisper. Her stomach churned as she scanned the departure board: *delayed until further notice*. Her grandmother's birthday. It was supposed to be a surprise.

She pulled her carry-on bag closer, the strap digging into her shoulder, a small, irritating pain that felt utterly colossal. People were milling about, some complaining, some trying to find a comfortable spot to sit. Maya, however, felt a strange detachment, like she was watching it all from a place far outside of herself.

She took a shaky breath, then quietly walked to the nearest bathroom, avoiding eye contact.

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