sensitive - Story 128775 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the gallery was thick with the scent of old canvas and expensive varnish. Isabella couldn’t bring herself to meet her brother, Marcus’s, eyes. He was already talking animatedly with the gallery owner, discussing future exhibitions, his voice brimming with confidence.

Their grandmother’s collection was vast, renowned, and highly valuable. Isabella, a struggling artist herself, felt a profound ache settle in her gut. She chewed on her lip, a nervous habit she hadn't realized she still had.

The reading was a formality. Everyone already knew the outcome.

The lawyer, a sharp-faced woman, began. “Marcus, you will be inheriting the bulk of the collection…" She rattled off names of famous artists and descriptions of priceless masterpieces.

Isabella felt a flush creep up her neck.

"...And Isabella, you will be given the family home, as well as a small trust fund to continue with your work."

The gallery owner gave Isabella a sympathetic look.

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