sensitive - Story 128299 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The meticulously planned playlist, the carefully chosen venue, now felt like a cruel joke. Sarah’s hands trembled as she read the email. The party, the one she'd poured her heart into, was canceled. The carefully constructed illusion had crumbled, leaving her feeling utterly… alone.

She stood in her apartment, the silence amplifying the thudding of her heart. She couldn't believe it. She just wanted to curl up somewhere and disappear.

She picked up a vase on the table, then put it back down, as if she didn't trust her own strength. It was too much.

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