sensitive - Story 128534 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It felt like a punch to the gut. The news, delivered with a forced cheerfulness from the financial aid officer, stole the air from her lungs. She gripped the edge of the desk, knuckles bone-white. The officer continued to talk, a monotone drone against the sudden roaring in her ears. She nodded occasionally, a hollow gesture, while her mind raced. How would she afford rent? Groceries? The textbooks already ordered? Her lower lip trembled. She excused herself, the words barely audible, and stumbled out into the hallway, seeking an escape she couldn't find.

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