sensitive - Story 128826 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun blazed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air, a relentless spotlight on Maya’s carefully crafted world. It was her baby, this novel, her words her life for the last two years. She found herself sitting in the coffee shop, across from another writer, a woman named Olivia. Olivia pulled out her notes, and the color drained from Maya's face.

Maya closed her eyes, fighting back the sting of unshed tears. Her heart pounded in her chest, a frantic drumbeat against her ribs. The coffee in front of her sat untouched.

Olivia, sensing her distress, cleared her throat. “I'm sorry,” she whispered, her voice barely audible.

Maya, however, could only manage a slow shake of her head.

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