sensitive - Story 128279 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her new role in sales was a disaster. The aggressive approach felt too much. The constant need for self-promotion felt like a betrayal. Amelia, in accounting for years, always thrived in the quiet.

Her cheeks burned during the sales pitches, and her voice cracked. She felt every rejection personally, and spent hours in her cubicle, the walls closing in. She found her old role, in accounting, in her mind at all times.

She spent the break times in the restrooms. The transition was so difficult. She hated the competitive atmosphere.

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