sensitive - Story 128240 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dinner party was a disaster. Sarah tried to smile, to engage in the polite conversation, but the words caught in her throat. Everyone kept checking their phones, and she knew. They knew about her diary.

She felt as though she were under a spotlight, her every move scrutinized. The laughter felt brittle, the conversation forced. She excused herself, claiming a headache, and fled to the bathroom.

She stared at her reflection, at the mascara streaking down her cheeks. The woman in the mirror looked fragile, broken. She wanted to scream, to shatter the illusion of normalcy, but she just stood there, speechless.

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