sensitive - Story 128543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification had arrived at 2:00 am. Sarah had been unable to sleep, insomnia plaguing her once again. She’d crept downstairs, seeking the comfort of the living room, only to see the words "new follower request." It had been from a stranger, apparently having been sent by her daughter, Chloe.

It was Chloe’s private account. Sarah had seen the profile picture and it was undeniably her daughter, but the name was different, a play on her middle name. A chill snaked up Sarah's spine. The air in the room felt thick and heavy.

She stared at the screen, her vision blurring, the room swimming. She felt a profound sense of isolation. The world tilted as she slowly realized that she no longer knew her daughter.

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