sensitive - Story 128657 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery felt like a mockery of her inner turmoil. She was trying to text her sister, wanting to share the details of a particularly trying day at work. But a mistake led the message, filled with exasperation and frustration, to her demanding, emotionally distant mother. The text read: "Everything is falling apart."

She felt a sharp sting behind her eyes, the beginning of tears she desperately tried to hold back. Her hands trembled as she clutched the strap of her purse. The polite chatter and enthusiastic art reviews around her grated on her nerves. The gallery suddenly felt like a pressure cooker, the heat intensifying.

The bright paintings seemed to swirl and blur before her eyes. The urge to flee, to escape the suffocating weight of the situation, became overwhelming. She couldn't breathe.

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