sensitive - Story 128343 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh sunlight seemed to magnify the dust motes dancing in the air. Amelia found the whole scene overwhelming. The cacophony of voices, the jostling crowds, the sheer clutter of things. Her hands were clammy, her breath shallow. She was almost ready to leave, despite the promises she had made.

Then, there it was. A bear. Not just any bear, but the one. The one she had named Bartholomew. The one that was her dearest companion. It was tattered, and missing a limb, but it was him. Amelia felt a hot, prickling sensation behind her eyeballs.

She stood rooted to the spot, her world narrowing to the threadbare plush and the faded smile stitched on the bear's face. Time seemed to stop. She felt the urge to run, to hide. She could not speak. The lump in her throat was too large.

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