sensitive - Story 128513 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bleachers seemed to press in on Emily. The squeak of sneakers, the rhythmic thud of the basketball, the shouts of the other players – all the usual sounds of practice were now a cacophony of judgment. She felt a tremor in her hands, her palms slick with sweat. Coach Thompson called her name. Her heart began to pound a frantic tattoo against her ribs.

She avoided looking at the other girls as she walked towards the court. She knew. She understood.

“Can you stay back after practice, Emily?” the coach asked. The air seemed to have thickened, making it harder to breathe. She nodded, unable to speak, the taste of metal filling her mouth.

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