sensitive - Story 128499 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Serena stared at the advertisement, the vibrant colours mocking her. The "self-folding laundry basket" – her invention – was being sold at a discount. Her heart sank, a slow, heavy drop. She picked at a loose thread on her sleeve.

She closed her eyes, trying to block out the image. The feeling of uselessness was overwhelming. She had imagined the moment when her invention would change lives, but now...

She opened her eyes, her vision blurry. She stumbled towards the window, the bright sunlight seeming to intensify her discomfort. The world outside, so full of possibilities, seemed utterly closed to her.

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