sensitive - Story 128277 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the design studio, a world apart from the monochrome of her previous role in finance, felt overwhelming. Sarah felt a pressure build behind her eyes as she walked into the building.

The freedom of the new role was terrifying. She was used to rules and structure. In finance, there were clear answers.

During the first few weeks, she found herself retreating to the quietest corner she could find, avoiding the energetic team. She constantly fidgeted with her pen. Even the smallest criticism felt like a personal affront. She missed the predictability of the old job.

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