sensitive - Story 128201 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning had started poorly. Rain lashed against the bedroom window, mirroring the storm brewing inside Amelia. She tugged the duvet higher, pulling it over her head. Every little thing felt like a weight, a heavy cloak she had to wear.

When the insistent knock finally dragged her from her cocoon, she knew instantly something was wrong. Her neighbor, Mr. Henderson, his face a mask of awkward sympathy, was standing there. He didn’t even need to say it.

Her heart hammered against her ribs. The empty space where her ancient Volvo had been parked, the familiar outline now absent, was a gaping wound in her day. She clutched her hands together, feeling a tremor run through her.

“The tow truck...they said it was blocking the sidewalk,” Mr. Henderson mumbled, avoiding her gaze. Amelia’s throat constricted. Blocking the sidewalk? Hadn’t parked there for years.

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