sensitive - Story 128995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," Chloe breathed, the word a small explosion of disbelief. Her essay, the one about her struggles with self-doubt, was staring back at her from the admissions website. The words felt alien now, though she’d written them. She didn't want anyone to see this part of her.

Her palms felt slick with sweat. She ran a hand through her hair, a nervous gesture. Each carefully crafted sentence, each exposed insecurity, felt like a gaping wound.

She felt a tremor run through her. She felt like crawling into a hole, away from the world. She wished she had never written it. She turned away from her laptop, the screen's glow leaving an afterimage on her vision, a constant reminder.

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