sensitive - Story 128216 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the small kitchen, a smell that usually brought comfort to Olivia. Today, however, it felt cloying, suffocating. Across the counter, her sister, Maya, was describing their childhood birthday party.

“Remember how you loved that pony ride, Olivia? You were beaming all day!” Maya exclaimed, a smile on her face.

Olivia’s chest felt tight. She remembered the party, yes, but not in the way Maya was describing it. She remembered the fear of being on the pony, the loud laughter of the other kids.

“I was scared," Olivia whispered, avoiding Maya’s gaze.

Maya’s smile faltered, replaced by a confused frown. The smell of the bread seemed to intensify, making Olivia feel lightheaded.

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