sensitive - Story 128415 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling train station amplified the thrum of anxiety that had been with Clara all day. She found the wallet wedged between two seats. Her fingers trembled as she picked it up, the leather cool and smooth.

She flicked it open, the snap resisting slightly. Cash spilled out, a dizzying sight. A wave of nausea washed over her.

She pictured the owner, perhaps a student struggling to make ends meet, or a stressed-out parent. She imagined the hollow feeling in their gut that comes when something like this happens.

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