sensitive - Story 128335 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“You’re kidding,” Sophia stammered, her voice thick. The waitress, a woman she knew by name, confirmed the dreadful truth: “Chez Pierre” was shutting down.

A strange buzzing filled her ears. She felt a need to argue, to deny it, but the words wouldn’t come.

She looked around the familiar, warmly lit space, the red-checkered tablecloths suddenly appearing blurred. Her breath came in short, shallow gasps. She clutched at the edge of the table, feeling a tremor in her hands.

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