sensitive - Story 128547 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the Instagram feed mocked her. Helen knew the password. Her daughter, Maya, was constantly on social media, but she had always been careful. Today, Helen wasn't.

The carefully curated images showed a life she didn't recognize. Smiles, laughter, and inside jokes that excluded her. Her throat tightened, her breath coming in shallow gasps. Her vision blurred.

She slumped back in her chair, the light of the phone reflecting in her tear-filled eyes. She felt a sharp, stinging pain in her temples, a pulsing ache that echoed the emptiness inside. She felt a growing distance between them that no conversation could ever fix.

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