sensitive - Story 128389 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rooftop bar, with its panoramic city view, was supposed to be the perfect setting. She'd chosen the place, excited about the night. But now, she felt a growing unease, a knot tightening in her stomach. She stared at the city lights, the shimmering surface of the feeling she'd had, now curdling.

There he was. He was arriving. She saw him approaching, and a strange relief washed over her. Then, another woman stepped from behind a pillar, her eyes locking onto her.

She felt a hollowness in her chest. The music, previously inviting, now grated on her nerves. The air felt thin and hard to take in.

She could only watch the other woman's reaction, her face hardening and turning cold.

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