sensitive - Story 128177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling marketplace was a world away from the glamorous world that Alex, her childhood friend, had always claimed to inhabit. He'd always spoken with such authority about his "international import-export business." Now, she saw him, haggling over the price of tomatoes.

She felt a sharp, unexpected pain in her stomach. His carefully crafted stories, once so captivating, now seemed absurd. The vibrant colours of the market blurred before her eyes, and she felt a sudden urge to flee. His grand tales, she realized, were just that: tales.

“Alex…” she began, her voice cracking. She had to get away.

She turned and pushed through the crowd, unable to face him, the loud calls of the vendors washing over her as she hurried away.

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