sensitive - Story 128464 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s office smelled of stale coffee and impending doom. Across the table, her aunt droned on about expenses and the realities of modern life. The subject? Her grandfather's war medals. They had been kept in a box under his bed and held all of her childhood memories.

She picked at a hangnail, the rough edge of her thumbnail a small distraction from the relentless conversation. Her vision blurred, and the words seemed to swirl around her. A deep ache formed behind her eyes.

"It's just… it feels wrong," she finally managed, her voice thick with unshed tears. Her aunt's placid face offered no comfort, no understanding. She felt a cold detachment as she realized what was about to happen.

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