sensitive - Story 128198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sports day, a colourful spectacle of screaming children and over-enthusiastic parents. Her son’s PE teacher, Mr. Collins, was a familiar face. It was the same Mr. Collins that caused a flood of memories to surface. She felt a knot in her stomach.

The sun beat down, and the heat seemed to magnify the tension in her muscles. She watched, her jaw clenched, as Mr. Collins blew his whistle. The sound triggered a wave of anxiousness.

She wanted to run onto the field, to rescue her son from this man. She knew she couldn't. She stood rooted to the spot, feeling a familiar tightness in her chest.

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