sensitive - Story 128875 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The opening night was a blur. Maya, her eyes darting around the crowded room, was certain everyone was staring at her. Her work was spread across the walls, a collection of her most raw and vulnerable sketches.

Each admiring glance, each compliment about the artwork felt more like a judgment of her soul. She could feel the pressure building behind her eyes.

She quickly found a quiet corner and leaned against the wall, her breath catching in her throat. She needed space, needed the noise to stop. Her hands were shaking. She wanted to disappear.

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