sensitive - Story 128210 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the day was already settling on her shoulders, each worry a leaden brick. The kids' school trip, the overdue bills, the strained relationship with her sister... it was all too much.

She walked out the door and saw the empty space where her car was supposed to be. The suddenness of it stole the air from her lungs. This final inconvenience felt like the universe was intentionally piling on.

She squeezed her eyes shut, and she felt a tremor run through her. The world, it seemed, was determined to break her.

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