sensitive - Story 128383 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bookstore, normally a sanctuary of hushed tones and comforting smells, felt oppressive. Sarah ran her fingers over the spines of books, seeking a distraction, anything to calm the tremor in her hands. The air conditioning was failing, the room growing stuffy and hot. She kept glancing at the door, her heart doing a frantic drumbeat against her ribs.

He was late. Again.

Then he was there. He entered, radiating an easy charm she found irresistible. But behind him, another woman, clutching a copy of the same book she was reading, her expression a mirror image of Sarah’s own surprise.

Sarah felt the world tilt. The scent of old paper, once a source of peace, now made her feel nauseous. She couldn't meet his eyes, couldn't speak.

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