sensitive - Story 128236 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I can't believe this is happening," Chloe muttered, pacing her small apartment. The news articles were relentless, highlighting her most private thoughts. She felt a burning sensation in her eyes, but she refused to cry. Not yet.

She grabbed a bottle of water and took a large gulp, the cold liquid offering a fleeting moment of relief. The walls seemed to be closing in, the air thick with the digital exposure. Every notification on her phone sent a fresh jolt of anxiety through her.

She walked towards the window, staring at the street below. The ordinary world seemed a million miles away, a landscape she could no longer relate to.

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