sensitive - Story 128687 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the stained glass, once a source of joy, now seemed to mock Miriam. She had spent years mastering the craft, shaping light and color into beautiful patterns. Her daughter, Chloe, was now following in her footsteps, taking classes and working on her own pieces.

Chloe would come to her with new ideas, new techniques. “Mom, can you help me with this?” Her constant need for approval felt like a demand. The workshop, normally her haven, felt cramped and claustrophobic.

Miriam found herself avoiding Chloe, making her excuses. She could no longer bear the sight of the glass, the clinking of tools, the vibrant colors that now felt like a taunt to her own inadequacies.

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