sensitive - Story 128275 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new environment, now customer service, felt alien and hostile. Maria found herself biting back tears during the first training session. Her heart pounded in her chest.

"Welcome to the team!" the trainer said, his voice cheerful. She could barely manage a nod. The constant demands, the need to interact with people all day… it was a struggle.

She spent most of her lunch break hiding in the supply closet, the darkness offering a semblance of peace. The first few days, she felt like her skin was constantly on fire. Every negative comment, every raised voice on the phone, felt like a personal failure.

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