sensitive - Story 128408 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The key felt cold, metallic against Elara’s skin. The weight of it seemed to symbolize the weight of responsibility that pressed upon her. Her brother, Caleb, bounced with restless energy, already picturing the possibilities. She remained still, frozen.

She found herself focusing on small, insignificant details: the pattern on the wallpaper, the way the light refracted through the windowpane. She couldn’t bring herself to enter the living room, to see the chair her grandmother used to sit in, the objects that reeked of her.

Her heart hammered in her chest, a frantic drumbeat against her ribs. She felt a pressing need to leave, to escape, but the key felt heavy in her hand. She pressed her lips together.

"So," Caleb said, clapping his hands together, "let’s get started!" She simply nodded and stepped through the door.

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