sensitive - Story 128129 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold metal of the chair felt like a comfort against her skin. Ava buried her face in her hands, the rough fabric of her sweater scratching her cheek. The words "Delayed Indefinitely" seemed to pulsate from the screen. Her brother’s first concert, his lifelong dream, and he was counting on her being there.

She picked at a loose thread on her jeans, a small, repetitive action that temporarily distracted her. The sound of the children playing by the gate felt like a cruel joke, a reminder of all the joyful moments she was missing.

Her shoulders trembled.

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