sensitive - Story 128157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. The bright light hurt her eyes. She wanted to pull the curtains and hide from the world.

She had spent hours preparing for the interview, crafting the perfect answers, researching the company. It all seemed pointless now. The feeling of disappointment was like a physical weight on her chest.

A message popped up on her phone: "Interview went well!" It was from Alex. Relief and sorrow, a confusing cocktail of emotions, swirled inside her.

She quickly replied, "Great news!" But her fingers trembled as she typed.

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