sensitive - Story 128323 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The restaurant was almost empty. Chef Yumi usually thrived on the buzz of a full dining room. Now, she felt exposed, vulnerable. The review – a cruel dissection of her innovative tasting menu – seemed to hang in the air, a physical weight.

She found herself meticulously cleaning the already spotless counter, scrubbing with unnecessary force. Her hands ached, her knuckles white. The clatter of a single fork being dropped sent a jolt of panic through her.

The waiter, David, approached, his expression cautious. "Chef, are you…okay?" Yumi took a deep breath, fighting back the unwelcome sting in her eyes. "Fine," she managed, her voice barely above a whisper.

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