sensitive - Story 128490 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old key, cold against her palm, felt like a burden. Claire ran her thumb over the tarnished metal. Her throat constricted, making it hard to swallow.

She stood on the overgrown lawn, the house looming behind her. It was derelict, vandalized. A cruel parody of her childhood. But it was still hers.

She walked towards the front door, the key trembling in her hand. She wanted to remember it as it was. Happy, safe. She hated the way it made her feel.

She unlocked the door. The sound echoed in the silence. She closed her eyes for a moment, and then turned away.

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