sensitive - Story 128778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stuffy antique shop reeked of dust and forgotten memories. Sarah traced the intricate carvings on the ornate wooden table, her fingers trembling slightly. Her brother, David, paced the room, his phone glued to his ear, making calls about appraisals and potential buyers.

Their uncle, a notorious collector, had amassed a fortune in rare antiques. The will reading felt more like a business transaction. Sarah felt a hollow ache.

The lawyer, a young man in an ill-fitting suit, cleared his throat.

"David, you will inherit the majority of the antique collection and the proceeds from its sale."

David beamed, his face alight with excitement. Sarah’s chest constricted.

"Sarah, you will be receiving…" The lawyer paused, consulting a document.

“…the family music box collection."

Sarah closed her eyes for a moment.

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