sensitive - Story 128228 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of lavender and old paper filled the room. Emily reached for a dog-eared essay, her first attempt at creative writing. It was riddled with spelling mistakes and awkward phrasing. A tightness formed in her chest.

She felt like she was being watched, judged. She was a respected scientist now, but this...this reminded her of a time when she was clumsy and unsure. She hated it.

She felt an overwhelming need to retreat. She leaned against the wall, her breath coming in shallow gasps. She squeezed her eyes shut, wishing she could rewind time.

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