sensitive - Story 128557 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The late afternoon sun cast long shadows across the living room, making the dust motes dance in the air. Across the room, Chloe excitedly talked about purchasing a parrot. “Imagine, Alex! We could teach it to talk! It’ll be so entertaining!”

Alex felt a tremor run through her. The thought of a loud, demanding bird in their already noisy apartment felt overwhelming. "I… I have a lot on my plate right now," she whispered, avoiding Chloe's eager gaze. She suddenly found the patterns of the wallpaper distracting.

Chloe's expression shifted, and she started again. "Come on, Alex! The company will be great. It would be nice to have something in the apartment that shows some… life!” Alex excused herself, needing air, and went out for a walk.

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