sensitive - Story 128263 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic thud of the soccer ball against the practice wall felt jarringly loud in Chloe’s ears. She hadn't even unpacked her cleats; she knew her place in the junior varsity lineup wasn't going to be on the roster. The cool air of the evening, usually refreshing, now felt biting. Her skin prickled. A tremor ran through her arms.

She’d anticipated this, she told herself, yet the confirmation stung. A wave of exhaustion washed over her.

She picked up her phone and started a text message to her mom, then deleted it. She didn't want to talk, didn’t want the inevitable, “It’s okay, honey” speech. She just wanted to be alone with her despair.

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