sensitive - Story 128285 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email pinged, and Maya jumped, her tea sloshing in the mug. The subject line read "Following Up!" and the sender was "Scott." Her heart skipped a beat, a coldness spreading through her limbs.

She had actively worked to forget Scott. Why was he contacting her now? She sank back into her chair, a wave of nausea washing over her.

She closed her eyes, trying to block out the memories, the cutting remarks, the whispered taunts. She felt a familiar weight pressing down on her chest, making it hard to breathe.

She slowly typed a response, her fingers hovering over the keyboard. She decided to ignore him, and just closed her laptop.

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