sensitive - Story 128699 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her voice was unsteady as she offered her congratulations to the newly promoted colleague. The words felt hollow, a performance for the benefit of others. Emily excused herself, claiming a headache.

She retreated to the supply closet. The cramped space offered a semblance of privacy. She rested her forehead against a shelf, the rough wood a small comfort.

She closed her eyes, trying to block out the sounds of the office. She wanted to scream, to shatter the facade of composure she'd carefully constructed.

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