sensitive - Story 128738 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the apartment crackled with unspoken tension. Ben sat on the edge of the sofa, his usual easy posture replaced with a careful stillness. Sarah wandered around the room, picking at invisible lint on the furniture, avoiding his eyes. She felt a profound sense of injustice.

He was talking about his new life, his new opportunities, and she felt a dull ache behind her eyes. Why did things have to change?

She stopped in front of the window, staring out at the darkening sky, each dark cloud a mirror of her mood. The familiar sounds of the city seemed alien, distant. She bit her lip, holding back the wave of emotions that threatened to overwhelm her.

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