sensitive - Story 128715 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the tiny bedroom felt thick, almost tangible. Amelia reread the notice, the harsh sunlight streaming through the window highlighting the accusatory language. Her stomach churned. Each word was a physical blow.

She pushed herself up, pacing the small space. The floorboards creaked under her weight, a relentless rhythm of her rising agitation. She wrapped her arms around herself, trying to find some semblance of comfort, but it was useless.

She felt exposed, stripped bare. The thought of leaving everything behind – her memories, her life – was a physical weight, pressing down on her shoulders, making her want to sink down and disappear.

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