sensitive - Story 128933 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent hit her the moment she opened the door. Gardenias. Her favorite. The arrangement, delicate and lavish, stood in stark contrast to the drabness of her apartment. She felt a wash of something unfamiliar, a hollow feeling, a kind of yearning.

She picked them up, taking a deep breath and letting the scent calm her. Her hands trembled slightly as she examined them, searching for a clue, any clue, of the giver. There was nothing. Just flowers. Perfectly and silently beautiful. She set them on the table, then sat at the table and stared at them.

The silence of her apartment felt heavier now, filled with unanswered questions and the unsettling perfume of memory.

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