sensitive - Story 128679 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cheerful chimes of the clock tower seemed discordant in the sudden quiet of her world. Dr. Brown was leaving, and the news had created a void within her.

She forced a smile as she spoke to her classmates, but her heart hammered against her ribs. She felt the sudden urge to burst out crying.

She found herself walking, aimlessly, through the familiar campus. The trees seemed to loom over her, the leaves whispering secrets she couldn’t decipher.

She felt a sharp pain in her chest, a physical manifestation of her sadness. She wanted to scream.

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