sensitive - Story 128208 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The day began with a missed bus, a dropped phone, and a spilled coffee, all contributing to a growing sense of unease. Then, she opened the door to find an empty spot where her car was supposed to be.

"Seriously?" she whispered, her voice barely audible. Her chest tightened, and her breath came in shallow, choppy gasps. This felt like the final straw, the culmination of all the small inconveniences.

The note left by the tow company, with its official language and sterile details, felt like a deliberate personal attack. She crumpled it in her fist, her knuckles white. She closed her eyes for a moment, wishing she could just disappear.

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