sensitive - Story 128770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was blinding as she approached the once proud apple tree. Her hands started to shake. The world felt too loud, too bright. The sudden change of the landscape seemed to have changed everything.

She slowly walked around the empty space. Her breath hitched. She imagined its fruit, the shade it cast. The memories hit her like a punch. She felt an overwhelming surge of something.

She just wanted to disappear. She closed her eyes. She wanted it back. She wanted everything to be the same again.

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