sensitive - Story 128545 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The brightly lit cafe felt suddenly too bright. Jessica, her heart hammering against her ribs, studied the photos. Her son, Ethan, never wore that hoodie. The one he was wearing in several of the pictures. The one with the skull. He never went to that skate park.

Each image was a small betrayal. A little knife twist. She had to swallow to keep her voice in check. A strange, metallic taste coated her tongue. The coffee in front of her suddenly seemed to boil.

She clutched her cup, her fingers digging into the ceramic. The cafe was full of chattering voices, yet Jessica felt alone, adrift in a sea of unknown faces. The weight in her chest was immense. She knew she had to leave.

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