sensitive - Story 128854 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of jasmine hung in the air, a phantom reminder of her mother’s garden. Maya sat on the porch swing, the bucket list resting on her lap. It was a crisp autumn afternoon, and the leaves were turning shades of orange and red, the same colors as the sunset that she watched every day. She took a deep breath, and felt a burning in her eyes.

“Learn to paint." She’d seen her mother’s sketches, hidden away in a cupboard. She didn't know what to do. Her breath hitched. A fresh wave of despair settled over her.

She touched the page gently, her fingers tracing the script. "See a Broadway show." Why hadn't her mother ever told her about these aspirations? A single tear rolled down her cheek, leaving a glistening trail.

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