sensitive - Story 128531 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email hung in the air, a digital fly buzzing around her head. She reread the words, the polite regret forming a cage around her ribs. Her fingers trembled as she clicked the ‘reply’ button. Then she deleted the draft, the urge to scream a physical pressure building behind her eyes. Sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air, mocking her. She rubbed her arms, suddenly chilled. She closed the laptop, the sudden blackness a stark contrast to the bright world outside, and leaned her forehead against the cool, unyielding surface.

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