sensitive - Story 128305 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the small apartment amplified the knot that had taken root in Sarah’s stomach. The blinds were drawn, shutting out the sunshine. The world outside felt so bright, so cheerful, a stark contrast to the darkness consuming her. Finding out about the other guy’s salary was like being hit. She didn’t know what to do.

She felt a tremor in her hands as she reached for the remote, finding herself incapable of relaxing. She flipped through channels without seeing anything. The emptiness in the apartment felt crushing, a physical weight pressing down on her. She had poured her heart and soul into her work. Now it seemed like no one cared. She felt like she wanted to hide.

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