sensitive - Story 128519 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down on the track, the heat intensifying his discomfort. Jasmine watched the other runners warm up, their movements fluid and effortless. Each muscle in her body ached. She felt a tremor in her hands, a flutter in her chest. She had been struggling with her endurance, and the times were getting worse.

Coach Peterson motioned for her to come over. Jasmine fought the urge to run away.

"Jasmine, can we talk over here?" The words hung in the air, heavy and laden. She braced herself for the inevitable.

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