sensitive - Story 128723 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh fluorescent lights of the storage unit seemed to amplify the silence. Amelia clutched the letter, her knuckles white. Her mother's neat script, once a source of comfort, now felt like a taunt. "Thank you, but no thanks," the letter began, a clear rejection of a prestigious job offer.

Amelia felt a tremor run through her. This wasn't the narrative of a woman who was a go-getter, the narrative she had constructed. She felt betrayed by this information.

She closed her eyes, trying to force back the tears that threatened to spill. The metal boxes surrounding her seemed to press in, suffocating her. Her mother's choices had always been a mystery to her. She wanted to know more. She felt a burning need to know.

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