sensitive - Story 128350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The whole atmosphere was incredibly overwhelming to Emily. The crowded space, the incessant chatter, the overwhelming smell of old things. She felt a profound sense of discomfort she couldn't explain. She wanted to bolt.

Then her eyes found the bear. Her most cherished friend from her childhood, "Teddy." His button eyes stared up at her. Her heart felt as though it was lodged in her throat.

A wave of memories crashed over her, taking her back to a time of innocence and comfort. She felt a sharp pang of longing. She had to have it. She took a deep, shaky breath. "How much?" she asked, her voice wavering.

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