sensitive - Story 128536 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you alright?” Sarah's roommate’s question was a gentle probe, but it still felt invasive. She forced a smile, a tight, unconvincing curve of her lips. The email, informing her of the error, had left her feeling stripped bare. She'd spent the afternoon in her room, the blinds drawn, staring at the ceiling. Sleep had been impossible, the news a relentless intruder into her thoughts. She shrugged, avoiding her roommate's gaze. "Just a bit tired." Her voice sounded thin, reedy, even to her own ears.

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