sensitive - Story 128574 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I'm sorry, I don't..." Sarah trailed off, her voice hesitant. The words echoed in Elias's ears, each syllable a painful blow. He'd poured his heart out, recounting shared jokes, inside references, even the time they’d accidentally set off the fire alarm in the school. He'd been so sure, so certain he could jog her memory. The vibrant memories swirling in his mind seemed to bounce off her, unabsorbed. He swallowed hard. The air in the cafe felt suddenly thin, difficult to breathe. He excused himself and walked away quickly.

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