sensitive - Story 128978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hammering next door had started early. She knew what was coming. It had been inevitable. She heard the knock. It was the carpenter next door.

The man stood on her porch, wiping sweat from his brow. "Ma'am, I was hoping… I'm building a fence for the new garden on your side of the property line. It wouldn't be in your way, just a few feet."

Her head throbbed. She found herself staring at the crack in the doorframe, a small imperfection suddenly magnified to a monstrous size.

She mumbled something about it being fine and closed the door. She went to the medicine cabinet, the hammering continuing, a relentless beat in her head. She downed some pills, hoping to find a semblance of peace.

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