sensitive - Story 128412 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh fluorescent lights of the laundromat seemed to amplify the hum in Eleanor’s ears as she examined the wallet. It was a beautiful thing, crafted from dark, rich leather, unlike anything she owned. A shiver ran down her spine, a prickle of unease that had been her constant companion lately.

Inside, she found a wad of cash that made her stomach clench. It was more money than she’d seen in a month. Her gaze flickered to the worn, cracked linoleum floor, then back to the wallet.

She found herself replaying the scene in her head: a frantic scramble, a dropped bag, and now, this. The weight of the world, it felt like.

"Just leave it," a harsh voice in her head whispered.

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