sensitive - Story 128470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The dolls, Mom. It's time to let them go." Her brother's tone was all business, his gaze sweeping over the collection of porcelain dolls, their painted eyes staring blankly at the ceiling. The dolls had been her mother's most treasured possessions.

A wave of heat washed over her, followed by a chilling sense of dread. She felt her hands start to tremble. She looked at the dolls, each a tiny reflection of a moment in time, a memory of her mother’s love.

The room seemed to shrink. Her breathing became shallow and rapid. "No," she finally managed, her voice barely audible. Her brother didn't respond, his expression unreadable as he continued to assess the potential value.

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