sensitive - Story 128231 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email from her Aunt Carol bounced in her inbox, subject line: "OMG! You're FAMOUS!" A wave of heat flushed up Amelia's neck, prickling her scalp. Her fingers fumbled as she clicked the link, the world tilting sideways with a sudden lightness.

The website was garish, flashing neon pink and lime green. "Teen Angst Uncensored!" the banner screamed. Then, there it was: her name, right beneath a photo of a cartoon girl with pigtails. A cold knot formed in her stomach.

She backed away from the screen, her breath catching in ragged gasps. The room felt suddenly too small, the air thick and oppressive. Her phone buzzed; a text from her best friend, Maya, "Saw your diary online! LOL! It's so you!" Amelia wanted to scream, to 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