sensitive - Story 128473 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell chimed, a cheery sound that grated on her. A package, “To the Occupant,” but the return address was a name he didn't recognise. She just wanted to be left alone.

She stood in the hallway, not moving. The scent of laundry detergent, mingled with something vaguely metallic, hung in the air.

Taking a deep breath, she picked it up, her grip tight. Did she have the strength to do what she needed to? It seemed like too much effort.

She sat on the sofa, the unopened parcel on her lap. Her gaze drifted across the room, the dust motes dancing in the sunlight, and a single tear traced a path down her cheek.

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