sensitive - Story 128537 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s words, a casual mention of her scholarship in class, became a poisoned dart. The air crackled with unspoken tension. She felt all eyes on her, their gaze a heavy weight. She focused on the notes in front of her, the words blurring into an indecipherable mess. Her hands shook as she attempted to highlight a key phrase. She couldn't breathe. She wished she were invisible. The bell, when it finally rang, was a blessed release, a promise of escape.

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