sensitive - Story 128270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright lights of the dance studio felt blinding. The audition results were posted, and Amelia's name wasn’t on the list. The room spun around her. She felt like her legs were made of jelly. A stinging sensation burned behind her eyes.

She stood still, staring at the list as if it held the secret to her existence. The music started again, but she couldn’t hear it. Her heart pounded in her ears.

She felt a wave of nausea. She swayed, nearly collapsing. Her dreams, her hopes, all seemed to vanish with her name not appearing on the list.

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