sensitive - Story 128165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The floral arrangements, usually a source of joy for Clara, seemed to mock her with their cheerful colors. She felt a pressure behind her eyes, the familiar precursor to tears. She didn't want to cry. Not here, not now.

The waiter offered her a tray of canapés, but she waved him away. Her appetite had vanished. She hated this feeling, the way her body betrayed her.

He was across the room, talking to the bride’s mother. The sight of him, so nonchalant, ignited a sharp pang. She immediately turned away, pretending to be absorbed in a conversation with the bride's cousin, her voice tight.

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