sensitive - Story 128779 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, cramped apartment felt even smaller now, filled with the ghosts of their parents. Maria sat on the edge of the bed, her shoulders slumped. Her brother, Javier, was already sorting through boxes, his expression unreadable.

Their mother’s last wishes were about to be revealed. Maria felt a wave of nausea. She stared at the faded floral wallpaper, the familiar patterns swimming before her eyes.

The lawyer, a young woman with kind eyes, began.

“Javier, you inherit the family business, the family home, and the majority of the financial assets.” She spoke quickly, her voice a soothing murmur.

Maria’s breath hitched.

“And Maria, you will be inheriting the family recipe book.”

Maria’s hands clenched into fists.

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