sensitive - Story 128765 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The park felt different now. The absence was a physical presence, a weight on Maya’s chest. The sturdy maple she had planted with her father, now a mere memory. It was supposed to stand forever, a testament to their shared love for nature.

She tried to rationalize, to tell herself it was just a tree. But the tightness in her chest, the involuntary tremor in her hands, betrayed her. It felt like a betrayal. The world seemed to shrink around her, the vibrant colors of the leaves suddenly muted.

She walked towards the tree's remains. She stared. She didn't want to touch it. She didn't want to look. She felt a profound 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