sensitive - Story 128703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email pinged, and Maya jumped, a small, involuntary movement. Mr. Henderson, her boss, had forwarded an email from a former camper of Camp Redwood, a camp Maya attended as a child. A knot tightened in her stomach.

She hadn't thought about that place in ages. It was almost as though it was a lifetime ago. A strange combination of heat and cold washed over her.

Then, Mark from accounting popped his head around her cubicle, grinning. “Hey Maya! Did you see that email? I used to go to Redwood too! Remember the talent show?” The corners of his mouth turned upward as he smiled.

Maya forced a smile back, her breath caught in her throat. She needed space. Now.

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