sensitive - Story 128448 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the room seemed to thicken with unspoken tension. Her journal, the one with the hand-drawn cover she created, was open on the window sill. Inside, she had poured out her grief over her recently passed grandmother. Her roommate, Sam, was humming as he prepared to go out.

The ache in her chest seemed to deepen with every passing second. She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her, and she had to grip the edge of her bed to steady herself.

She wanted to beg him to leave, to find somewhere else, to run.

"Rough week?" Sam asked, looking up.

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