sensitive - Story 128756 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“It's not real, it can’t be,” I muttered, staring at the cursive script. Years. So many years. The paper felt rough against my fingertips, the words mocking my long-held resolve. The familiar pang in my chest returned, that aching pressure. I felt my face flush, a heat radiating from my core. I reached for the glass of water on my nightstand, my hand shaking so badly I almost dropped it. The simple act of drinking felt monumental.

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