sensitive - Story 128233 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Is this real?" Sarah whispered, her voice barely audible. Her hands trembled as she scrolled through the comments beneath her online diary excerpts. Cruel, anonymous barbs. Snippy laughter. A chorus of people she didn't know, dissecting her vulnerabilities.

She curled into a ball on her bed, the duvet pulled over her head. The darkness offered a sliver of refuge. Each breath felt shallow, as if the air itself was tainted with the mockery.

Her mother knocked gently on the door, then opened it, peering into the gloom. "Honey? Are you okay?" Sarah just shook her head, unable to speak, the weight of the digital judgement crushing 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