sensitive - Story 128828 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the air of the bakery, but for Olivia, the scent was cloying, nauseating. She’d always dreamed of opening her own bakery, and she had spent the last year working on her own recipes. She had finally put it all on paper.

Now, she was at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the bakery across the street. The name on the sign was familiar. It looked like hers. Her hands started to shake.

The owner of the new bakery, a woman named Chloe, spotted her and waved, a bright smile on her face.

Olivia couldn't meet her gaze, couldn't respond. She turned and fled, the joy of the day a bitter taste in her mouth.

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