sensitive - Story 128896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright sunshine outside the classroom felt offensive to her. A 'B-' on her midterm. It felt like her world was ending. Sophia always excelled, always strived for perfection. It was her identity.

She walked towards her car, her shoulders slumped. The laughter of other students drifted to her ears, the sounds a mocking chorus. Her steps slowed, each footfall a heavy weight. The air felt heavy, suffocating.

She finally reached her car. Instead of getting in, she sat on the curb, head in her hands, the sound of her own quiet sobs her only company.

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