sensitive - Story 128457 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. The DNA report showed a different heritage than she had always thought, and a different set of parents. She hadn't expected the email to hit her so hard. The impact left her breathless.

She was alone in her childhood bedroom, a space she'd thought of as a sanctuary. Now, it felt like a cage. The colorful floral wallpaper, once a source of comfort, now appeared to mock her. The scent of lavender, usually calming, felt overwhelming.

She curled up on her bed, pulling the covers over her head, shutting out the world. The darkness felt like the only safe place, a refuge from the storm raging inside her.

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