sensitive - Story 128697 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the office suddenly seemed to assault her. Jessica felt a fluttery feeling in her chest. She had prepared a speech, but now she was unable to utter a single word. She felt like she was standing outside of herself, watching someone else be congratulated.

Her fingers fidgeted with her pen. The plastic felt cold against her skin. She kept checking the time, as if she could magically will the day to end.

She had always prided herself on her professionalism, her composure. But now, she was aware of every breath, every muscle. She wanted to hide.

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