sensitive - Story 128206 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, this is just great,” he muttered, his voice brittle. It was her first thought when she saw the empty space where her car was supposed to be.

Sarah had been battling a relentless feeling of being overwhelmed for weeks. She'd barely slept, eaten little. Every conversation was an effort.

She found the notice on the door confirming her fears. A parking violation. It felt like yet another failure, another sign that she couldn't keep up.

Her eyes stung, and she blinked rapidly, trying to clear the sudden blur. She pressed her lips together, fighting the urge to crumble.

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