sensitive - Story 128737 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafe was filled with the aroma of coffee and the murmur of conversations, but all Maya could smell was the bittersweet scent of impending loss. Liam was laughing, showing her pictures of his new home, and the smile felt forced on her face. Each detail about his move was like a tiny dagger, piercing at her heart.

She stirred her latte, watching the swirling cream, unable to meet his gaze. She was usually expressive, but now she felt hollow.

He leaned forward, his voice lowering to a conspiratorial whisper, and she found the gesture too intimate. She found herself wanting to run, but she was stuck, a prisoner in her own emotions. A bitter taste coated her mouth.

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