sensitive - Story 128795 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I can’t believe this,” she whispered, her voice barely audible. The history book in her lap had revealed the truth: her charming cottage was the site of a gruesome crime. Her heart raced, each beat a frantic drum against her ribs.

She buried her face in her hands, her shoulders shaking. The cozy fireplace, which had always offered comfort, now seemed to leer at her. She felt exposed, vulnerable, as if the past was reaching out to touch her.

She rose and walked to the window, staring out at the peaceful garden, the contrast between the beauty outside and the darkness she had just learned about.

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