sensitive - Story 128739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Amelia found herself unable to finish her meal. Liam's cheerful voice, describing his future, grated on her nerves. She pushed the plate of food away, suddenly finding the scent of the curry nauseating.

She felt a constant pressure behind her eyes, the familiar precursor to tears. She didn't want to cry, not here, not in front of him. She took a large gulp of water, trying to compose herself, but it was useless.

She looked at him, and all she saw was a stranger. Someone she wouldn't see every day. Someone who was going to build a new life in a place she wasn't. She felt a sharp pang of loneliness.

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