sensitive - Story 128439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her voice was almost a whisper as she walked through the farmers market. She gazed at the displays, now the same as the popular recipe, the one she had developed. It was her grandmother's pickled onions. The same recipe, the same ingredients. The new stall boasted about the special technique, the one that used to belong to her family.

She felt the heat rising in her face, her eyes beginning to sting. She wrapped her arms around herself, as if trying to shield herself from the sight, from the world.

She quickened her pace, desperate to escape the market. She just wanted to be alone, to be away from the happy chatter and the delicious smells. She longed for her quiet space.

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