sensitive - Story 128420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering neon sign outside the diner cast long, distorted shadows as Chloe found the wallet near the entrance. Her jaw clenched, her hands clenching into fists. The world, lately, felt like a series of slaps.

Inside, a substantial amount of money. She swallowed hard, the muscles in her neck aching. She felt her eyes welling up, a familiar burning behind them.

She imagined the owner's despair, the anger. She knew the feeling. The sheer unfairness of it all.

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