sensitive - Story 128325 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The restaurant was a disaster. Since the review, reservations had plummeted. Chef Anya stood in the near-empty dining room, a chill seeping into her bones. The critic had called her dishes "pretentious".

She sat at a small table, pushing a plate of untouched risotto around. The usually vibrant flavors of the dish now tasted like ash in her mouth. She felt a profound sense of isolation.

The maitre d' approached, his face etched with worry. "Chef, should we…?" He trailed off, unsure of how to phrase his concern. Anya just shook her head, unable to meet his gaze.

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