sensitive - Story 128780 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grand conservatory was bathed in the soft glow of the setting sun. Emily fidgeted with the delicate chain of the necklace she was wearing. Her brother, Charles, stood near the orchids, his back to her, admiring the vibrant blooms. A deep sorrow settled inside her.

Their father had been a renowned botanist, his life dedicated to the cultivation of rare plants. The reading of the will felt like a betrayal.

The lawyer, a woman with a no-nonsense demeanor, began.

"Charles, you will be inheriting your father’s extensive plant collection and the greenhouse."

Emily struggled to breathe.

“Emily,” she heard, her voice barely a whisper, “you are to receive the family's collection of rare seeds."

Emily wanted to cry, the tears stinging in her eyes. The seeds were her father’s first love.

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