sensitive - Story 128348 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cacophony of the yard sale was deafening. Sarah felt a wave of nausea wash over her. Every interaction felt like an assault, every smile felt fake. She desperately wanted to escape.

Then, she saw the bear. The one. It was tucked away in a corner, its fur matted and worn. A tear streamed down her cheek before she could stop it. A familiar feeling of loss settled in her stomach.

She felt the urgent need to retreat into herself, to disappear. Her breath hitched. She fought back the rising panic. "How… how much is it?" she asked, her voice cracking.

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