sensitive - Story 128238 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was eerily silent, the kind of silence that amplifies every little noise. Maria sat on the sofa, clutching a pillow to her chest. The words on the screen, her words, mocked her, twisted into something ugly.

She felt a dull ache in her temples, a constant, throbbing reminder of her vulnerability. Her breath came in short, shallow gasps. She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to fight back the tears that threatened to spill over.

The doorbell rang, startling her. Her stomach lurched. Each step felt heavy as she moved toward the door, dread pooling in her chest.

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