sensitive - Story 128423 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny, elegant card felt like a burden in her trembling hand. She felt the sudden urge to hide. The invitation’s words felt like a judgment, an assessment of her life’s worth.

She found herself scrutinizing the reflection in her bathroom mirror, picking apart every perceived flaw. Her stomach churned. The thought of being seen, evaluated, felt like a physical blow.

She knew she should probably RSVP. Pretend she was okay. But the thought made her want to crawl into bed and pull the covers over her head.

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