sensitive - Story 128169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As the bride began to give her speech, a familiar face came into view, and a feeling washed over Chloe. It felt like her insides were turning to ice. Her hands began to tremble.

She focused on her wine, watching the way the light refracted through the red liquid. She willed herself to appear calm, but she felt like she might shatter at any moment.

She kept her distance, avoiding eye contact at all costs. Seeing him laughing with his new girlfriend filled her with a strange, twisting emotion. She excused herself to go to the bathroom.

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