sensitive - Story 128455 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," Clara muttered, the word a thin whisper in the quiet of her bedroom. The DNA results had confirmed her greatest fear and offered a bewildering truth. Everything she thought she knew was… different.

She wrapped her arms around herself, pulling them in tight to her chest. She had the sudden urge to run, to escape the confines of her life. She felt as though the very air around her was pressing in, suffocating her.

The familiar objects in her room—the framed photos, the favorite books—now seemed like alien artifacts. She picked up a childhood stuffed animal, the soft fur feeling strangely unfamiliar under her fingers. Tears welled up in her eyes, blurring her vision.

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