sensitive - Story 128435 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“The Perfect Pasta” magazine featured the pasta sauce that used to be her solace. Sarah stared at the colourful spread in the magazine, a knot forming in her stomach. A new celebrity chef, "Alessandro," was being credited with the recipe. It was the same one her grandfather had passed down, the same one she had spent years perfecting.

A chill ran down her spine, the air conditioning in the room suddenly too cold. She felt a need to be alone, to crawl into a dark space. Her heart thumped hard, an insistent beat that echoed in her ears.

She felt a wave of nausea. She tossed the magazine into the bin, the action a small rebellion against the world that felt like it was crumbling.

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