sensitive - Story 128627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza’s hands were clammy. Mr. Harding, her drama teacher, had liked her latest TikTok video. It was a silly thing, nothing serious, but the knowledge that he saw it, saw *her*, filled her with a strange, unpleasant feeling. She deleted the video, then the app.

During rehearsals, she became self-conscious. Every line delivery felt forced, unnatural. She stumbled over her lines, her face flaming with embarrassment. The stage, once a place of freedom, now felt like a spotlight.

She started missing rehearsals, concocting elaborate stories about family emergencies. The play, which had once been her passion, now felt like a chore, a source of anxiety.

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