sensitive - Story 128333 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No," Clara whispered, the word barely audible. The notification, a banner across her phone screen, had blindsided her, shattering her quiet afternoon. The beloved "Salty Siren" was closing its doors.

Her shoulders slumped. She’d planned to go there tomorrow, to sit at her usual table by the window and enjoy her usual plate of clam chowder.

She felt a hollowness inside, as though a familiar warmth had been ripped away. She carefully set down her cup of tea, the ceramic feeling cold and distant against her fingertips.

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