sensitive - Story 128174 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white walls of the art gallery felt suffocating as Maya confronted David. He had always presented himself as a wealthy art collector. The reality? He was a security guard.

She felt a strange heat in her cheeks, a flush that had nothing to do with the room's temperature. His carefully constructed persona, the basis of their entire friendship, had crumbled. The grand tales he’d spun about his travels and the masterpieces he’d supposedly owned now felt like hollow echoes. She felt an unexpected tightness in her chest, like a fist clenched around her heart.

"You're... you're a guard?" she said, her voice flat. She needed to leave.

She turned and walked towards the entrance, her steps quick and decisive, desperate to escape the suffocating weight of the situation. The bright paintings seemed to mock her, silent witnesses to his deception.

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