sensitive - Story 128990 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the notice felt almost unbearable in her hand. “Condos Coming Soon.” The words blurred before her eyes, and she felt a tremor pass through her. Her jaw clenched.

She slammed the front door shut, the sound echoing in the empty apartment. The sudden, uncharacteristic act of violence surprised her. She retreated to her favorite armchair, pulling a blanket around her like a shield.

Her gaze fixed on the corner of the ceiling, where a small crack had formed. She had meant to get it fixed for months, but never got around to it. Now, it felt like a silent testament to the impermanence of things. A tear escaped, and then another.

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