sensitive - Story 128950 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the manuscript pressed down on Clara’s chest as she walked home. She clutched it to her, feeling the paper’s rough edges. She’d found it hidden in the attic. A book about their life, written by Leo.

Her pace quickened. It was a distorted reflection, a funhouse mirror version of their relationship. The protagonist was a manipulative, controlling version of herself.

She fumbled with her keys. The door wouldn’t open. The locks felt heavy and useless. The world seemed to tilt. She felt sick.

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