sensitive - Story 128194 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school play, and the teacher Mrs. Davies. The same Mrs. Davies. She could barely breathe. The auditorium felt stifling. Sweat beaded on her forehead. The familiar scent of stage makeup and old wood brought an overwhelming rush of recollections.

Her daughter, Chloe, was backstage, preparing for her role. She wanted to rush up there, to protect her. She had a sudden, urgent desire to just take Chloe out of this place.

She found herself gripping the armrests of her chair, her knuckles white. Mrs. Davies emerged from the wings, her smile as practiced as it ever had been. A coldness settled on her shoulders. She barely dared to lift her gaze.

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