sensitive - Story 128548 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in her hand. Sarah sat at the kitchen table, the screen displaying a torrent of negativity. Her son, Ben, was making fun of her, talking with friends about a private family matter. A burning sensation erupted in her chest.

She felt a wave of nausea wash over her, a physical manifestation of her revulsion. Her hands trembled as she scrolled through the messages, each one a fresh assault. The familiar scent of coffee from her morning brew suddenly made her feel ill.

Sarah pushed herself back from the table, needing to get away from the source of her discomfort. She felt a strange tingling in her limbs, a sense of disassociation that made her feel as though she was observing herself from outside her own body.

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