sensitive - Story 128488 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The foreman, a burly man with a kind face, approached Emily, sensing her distress. "You alright, ma'am?" His voice was gentle. She shook her head, unable to speak.

The house, where she had spent her formative years, was crumbling before her eyes. The roof was already gone. The windows were smashed. Each falling piece felt like a stab to her soul.

Her hands shook. She felt lightheaded. She was afraid that if she stayed a moment longer, she would lose control.

She mumbled a hurried goodbye and stumbled away, tears streaming down her face. She didn't look back.

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