sensitive - Story 128248 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to tilt, and she felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. The doctor was speaking, explaining the mix-up, but the words were meaningless noise. She blinked rapidly, trying to focus on something, anything, to ground herself.

The information on the screen was like a foreign language, a script of a life she didn't recognize. The details of the other person's ailments, their struggles, their past, felt like a burden she was suddenly expected to carry. She felt a profound sense of injustice, of a distorted reality.

She closed her eyes briefly, trying to breathe deeply. When she opened them, the doctor was still talking, but the words seemed to have lost all meaning. She wanted to scream.

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