sensitive - Story 128745 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world had tilted on its axis. The unexpected crash had sent a shockwave through her, leaving her feeling brittle and exposed. Every sound amplified, every shadow elongated.

She forced herself to breathe, slow and even. But the rhythm was broken. Her hands trembled as she reached for her phone, unable to make the call to her husband. The thought of needing to explain, to recount the details, sent a cold wave of dread through her.

The fallen tree was merely a tree. But at that moment, it was everything. She hated the feeling, this feeling of vulnerability, and wanted it to stop. She pulled the covers up over her head.

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