sensitive - Story 128268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly cut grass, usually a comfort, now felt like a taunt. Maria, standing on the sidelines of the softball field, clenched her jaw. Her stomach churned. The team had been announced, and she hadn’t made it. She clenched her fists so tightly her nails dug into her palms.

She kept her gaze fixed on the ground. She heard the excited chatter of the girls who *had* made it, their laughter like a knife twisting in her gut. She struggled to keep herself from running away and hiding.

The thought of facing her friends and her parents, was a heavy burden to bear.

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