sensitive - Story 128167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of glasses and the excited chatter of the wedding guests felt like a physical assault on Sophia’s ears. She felt a hollowness in her chest, a void that threatened to swallow her whole. Seeing him, even from a distance, felt like a punch to the gut.

She excused herself from the conversation and wandered outside onto the balcony, seeking refuge from the overwhelming atmosphere. The cool night air offered little solace.

She leaned against the railing, staring out at the city lights. Each flicker of light seemed to mirror the turmoil within her. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the world, desperately hoping he wouldn't come out here.

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