sensitive - Story 128550 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in her stomach was a physical thing. Maria had found the account by accident. The profile was full of images of her son, Leo, looking happy, but with people she did not know. The captions were cryptic, and the comments even more so.

She felt a slow burn beginning to spread through her body. The air in the room felt stale, the silence oppressive. She felt the urge to cry, but she couldn't.

She gripped the edge of the desk, her knuckles white. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the images, the words, the overwhelming sense of alienation. She felt utterly alone.

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