sensitive - Story 128386 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d booked a table at her favorite restaurant, a place he knew held special meaning for her. The thought of this night, of the shared meal, had filled him with warmth. Now, his stomach churned. He fiddled with the silverware, the polished steel reflecting his own troubled face.

The door opened. He saw her, her face lighting up with a smile. It was the smile he loved. And then he saw the woman beside her. He froze, all the plans for the evening dissipating.

The other woman began to speak, her voice a mix of confusion and anger. He could barely hear. His ears were ringing.

He felt the world spin. His surroundings blurred. He was trapped.

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