sensitive - Story 128555 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound of rustling plastic bags was grating on her nerves. Across the living room, Maya was unpacking a mountain of supplies for a rabbit. “Hay, pellets, chew toys, a giant hutch! Won’t it be adorable, Sarah?”

Sarah’s breath hitched in her chest. The bright, cheerful atmosphere of the living room felt suffocating. "I… I’ve been having a lot of trouble sleeping lately," she said, her voice small. “And I’m not sure I could handle the extra responsibility.”

Maya’s smile faltered. "But it would be so much fun! We could name it…Fluffy!" She continued, "You always seem so… down. This would cheer you up!" Sarah felt a flush creep up her neck. She mumbled an excuse and retreated to her room, where she could finally breathe.

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