sensitive - Story 128931 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell chimed, a cheerful sound that immediately grated on Eleanor’s nerves. She considered ignoring it, but the incessant ringing felt accusatory. With a sigh that hitched slightly, she trudged to the door.

A delivery person stood on her porch, clutching a bouquet of vibrant lilies. They were beautiful, but the utter lack of a card sent a shiver down her spine. Her stomach clenched. Who? Why?

"For you, ma'am," the delivery person chirped, already turning away. Eleanor managed a weak, "Thank you," her voice barely audible. As the door closed, she pressed her back against it, the flowers suddenly feeling like a heavy burden. Tears pricked at her eyes, unbidden, and she clutched the fragrant blooms to her chest.

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