sensitive - Story 128849 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang, a shrill, unwelcome intrusion. Eleanor froze, her heart leaping. She knew who it was. The dreaded Mr. Davis, with his perpetual frown.

She took a slow, steadying breath. She peeked through the peephole. Seeing him standing there, his expression unyielding, made her stomach drop.

She knew she should open the door. She should be polite. But the thought of engaging in any kind of interaction was a burden too heavy to bear. She stood still, rooted to the spot, hoping he would just go 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