sensitive - Story 128459 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her carefully constructed facade cracked the instant she read the results. The DNA confirmed what she'd secretly feared and dreaded. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes, the familiar precursor to a torrent of tears.

She retreated to the bathroom, locking the door behind her. The cold tile floor felt oddly comforting. She stared at her reflection, searching for answers, seeking a familiar face.

Her face was etched with a raw emotion she tried to deny. Each breath was a struggle. The silence in the room was a heavy weight, pressing down on 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