sensitive - Story 128832 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the statement, the numbers blurring. A coldness spread from his stomach to his limbs. He’d stumbled upon it while looking for the electric bill, a hidden folder tucked away in the back of a drawer. His wife, Emily, had always managed the finances, a task he’d gladly relinquished. He'd assumed they were just getting by.

He walked into the kitchen, the scent of lavender from Emily's hand soap a jarring contrast to the turmoil inside him. She was humming, effortlessly whisking batter in a bowl. He felt a lump in his throat as he asked, "What's this?" His voice was barely a whisper.

Emily looked at him, her smile fading. The spoon clattered in the bowl. "Oh, that," she said, her voice unusually flat. Then, she turned back to her baking, as if the matter was closed.

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