sensitive - Story 128830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall buzzed with anticipation. Elena's fingers were numb on her cello. The piece she'd spent months composing was about to be performed. When she saw the other composer, standing next to her, she felt everything inside her collapse.

Elena forced a smile, but it felt brittle, unnatural. The other composer's music sounded very familiar. They shared a glance, and Elena felt a cold rush of nausea.

As the conductor raised his baton, she closed her eyes, bracing herself, the weight of the moment pressing down on her with unbearable force. The music began, and she felt as if her own heart was being played on an open stage.

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