sensitive - Story 128570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the party invitations in her hand suddenly felt unbearable. They were neatly printed with all the information she’d spent weeks agonizing over. They suddenly felt like a lie. Her friend, Maya, was hosting a similar celebration on the same day.

She stared out the window, at the setting sun. The vibrant colors of the sky seemed to mock the dullness inside her. She wanted to be excited. She wanted to celebrate. But she just felt empty.

She tossed the invitations onto the table, the paper fluttering softly. Her breath hitched in her throat. This feeling, this awful feeling, made her want to retreat and hide.

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