sensitive - Story 128590 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The art gallery was crowded, the air filled with the buzz of polite conversation and the clink of wine glasses. Chloe, the songwriter, had been invited to the opening as a supporter of a friend. It wasn’t until the song began that she knew something was wrong. Her song.

Her world tilted. Her heart, which had been at peace with itself for months, now felt like it would explode. She wanted to run. She wanted to scream. She felt like crawling into a corner. She felt the tears in her eyes.

She clutched her purse, her knuckles white. She looked around the gallery, at the smiling faces, and felt suddenly alone and vulnerable. The song finished. She did not know what to do.

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