sensitive - Story 128993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, good grief," Clara muttered, the words barely audible. The brightly colored text of her essay, now permanently linked to her name and photo, seemed to mock her. The essay about her fear of failing was now a public declaration. A wave of heat washed over her, and she felt like she was trapped in a sauna.

She grabbed a nearby pillow and clutched it to her chest, the soft fabric doing little to quell the internal tremors. It felt like she had a spotlight on her, every flaw, every fear laid bare for the whole world to see. It was worse than a nightmare.

She looked around the coffee shop, suddenly aware of every person's gaze. Every laugh, every glance felt like a personal judgment. She needed to leave, to escape the suffocating feeling.

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