sensitive - Story 128125 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No, no, no,” Clara whispered, her voice barely audible. The board read: *Flight Delayed: Estimated Departure 7:00 PM*. She’d already missed the memorial service for her best friend.

Her hands shook as she scrolled through the photographs on her phone—a montage of happy memories. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes, the familiar sting of unshed tears. The airport felt loud, chaotic.

She slumped against the cold, hard wall, pulling her knees to her chest. The silence in her ears was deafening, the emptiness inside, immense.

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