sensitive - Story 128834 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery left her feeling hollow, a vast emptiness replacing the comfort she’d previously felt. She saw the account while paying the bills. It felt like a punch to the gut. Michael, her husband, had always been a master of secrets. Now, there was one more.

She retreated to the bedroom, the familiar scent of his cologne clinging to the air, making her feel sicker. She pulled the covers over her head, wanting to disappear. The silence of the house pressed in on her, and the tears started to flow, silent and unstoppable.

Later, he found her there, curled up in a ball. “What’s wrong, love?” he asked, his voice gentle. But the tenderness felt like a betrayal. She turned her face away.

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