sensitive - Story 128331 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived like a punch to the gut. Beatrice stared at the screen, the cheerful logo of “Mama Rosa’s” mocking her. Her breath hitched. Her hand trembled as she scrolled through the short, blunt message: "Closing down, thanks for your patronage."

A wave of heat surged up her neck. She pushed away from her desk, the chair screeching against the tile floor. She didn't want anyone to see the way her lower lip was quivering.

She reached for her phone, intending to call her sister, but her fingers fumbled. Instead, she just stared, the image of Mama Rosa’s overflowing plates of pasta – the best in the city – swimming before her eyes.

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