sensitive - Story 128359 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty air of the attic pressed down on her, a weight on her shoulders. Sarah, normally resilient, felt a strange vulnerability as she unearthed a box of letters. The handwriting, elegant and flowing, told tales of love, loss, and longing.

She traced the loops and swirls of the penmanship, a tightness gripping her chest. Each word felt like a personal accusation. A tear escaped, sliding down her cheek, leaving a clean trail in the dust on her face.

She backed away from the box, unable to meet the gaze of the long-dead letter writer. She found she couldn't breath. She hurried from the attic, the forgotten voices echoing in her ears.

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