sensitive - Story 128475 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The postman had left it leaning against the wall. A small, nondescript box, addressed to "Mrs. Evelyn Reed," and a fresh wave of irritation washed over her. It was always something. She felt a knot tighten in her stomach, a familiar ache.

She hadn't had a proper night's sleep in weeks. The world felt like it was pressing in.

She knew she should call the office. Maybe they knew who this Evelyn Reed was. The thought of speaking to someone, even over the phone, made her want to run and hide.

She didn't move. She couldn't.

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