sensitive - Story 128736 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I'm going to miss you," Ben said, his voice a little gruff, but filled with a sincerity that made Sarah’s throat tighten. They were standing on the sidewalk, the setting sun casting long shadows. He looked so happy, so expectant of this new future.

She nodded, unable to meet his gaze. She busied herself with kicking at a loose pebble, her eyes stinging. The familiar scent of his cologne, usually a source of comfort, now felt like a painful reminder of what was ending.

"We'll stay in touch," he said, and the optimism in his voice, his easy assurance, made her want to run. She forced herself to smile, the effort making her jaw ache.

She felt a sharp pain in her chest, a physical manifestation of the ache inside.

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