sensitive - Story 128541 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering screen illuminated Amelia's face as she scrolled through the unfamiliar profile. Her pulse quickened with each new post, each tagged photo of her daughter, Lily, laughing with friends she’d never mentioned. A tightness began in Amelia’s chest, a constriction that made it difficult to breathe. She felt a wash of heat, prickling her skin.

Why hadn't Lily told her? The question echoed in Amelia’s mind, morphing into a hollow ache. She sank back against the headboard, the laptop resting awkwardly on her lap. Outside, the wind howled, rattling the windowpanes. It mirrored the storm brewing inside her.

Amelia’s lower lip trembled. She closed the laptop, the sudden darkness a stark contrast to the betrayal she was experiencing. She was left alone with the feeling. A hollow and lonely feeling, that gnawed at her.

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