sensitive - Story 128748 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crashing sound clawed at her, leaving her on edge. The image of the fallen tree, the raw destruction, was burned into her mind's eye. Her head began to ache.

She saw the neighbor, Mrs. Gable, standing amidst the wreckage, her face etched with a despair she understood all too well. It was too much to bear. She had to flee.

She grabbed her coat, not bothering with shoes, and slipped out the back door, needing to get as far away from the sight and the emotional turmoil as possible.

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