sensitive - Story 128315 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gentle rhythm of the waves lapping against the shore usually calmed Anya. Today, the sound grated on her ears. David was building a sandcastle with her children, their laughter echoing in the salty air. Then, he spoke to them in her dialect, teasing them and making them giggle. It felt like an intrusion.

He looked at her, a question in his eyes. She knew he had good intentions. He was trying to connect with her heritage, with her children. It was a gesture of love, of solidarity. But a knot tightened in her stomach.

She walked towards the edge of the water, a sudden urge to flee washing over her. She watched the sun dip towards the horizon, the colors painting the sky in fiery hues, and felt no warmth. She picked up a small shell, turning it over and over in her hands.

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