sensitive - Story 128445 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the room was deafening. Sarah found her journal, the one with the delicate floral design, propped open on her desk. The page detailing her insecurities about her family was exposed.

Her roommate, Jessica, was sitting at her own desk, pretending to study. But Sarah had noticed Jessica’s eyes flitting over the pages before, and the way her lips slightly curled, betraying the truth.

The urge to scream clawed at Sarah’s throat. A knot formed in her stomach. She felt a sharp sting behind her eyes, the familiar precursor to tears.

"So," Jessica said, without looking up. "Your family... sounds complicated."

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