sensitive - Story 128440 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The local coffee shop was playing a new advertisement. It was for a new beverage based on a recipe that once belonged to Sophia. It featured the exact combination of syrups and spices she had experimented with for years. Now, it was being promoted as a "seasonal sensation" by the shop's owner.

Her hands shook as she took a sip of her own coffee, the familiar taste suddenly bitter. She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. She gripped the table for support.

She had to leave, she realized. She paid her bill, her movements hurried. The door slammed behind her, the noise echoing in the empty street, a loud punctuation mark to a day that had left her shattered.

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