sensitive - Story 128330 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Chef Sylvie reread the review a dozen times. The critic had criticized her presentation, calling it "amateurish". She went to the back, to the area where the restaurant's dishes were washed. Her face was flushed, the heat from the hot water adding to her discomfort.

She turned on a faucet and let the water run, watching the stream. The sound was monotonous, yet also calming, a counterpoint to the chaos within.

She began to scrub a plate, the repetitive motion a distraction. The plate slipped in her soapy hands and clattered on the floor, shattering into a dozen pieces.

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