sensitive - Story 128997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification pinged. "Congratulations, your essay..." The words froze on her screen. Her essay! She'd poured her heart into that essay about her complicated relationship with her grandmother. She had laid bare all of her emotions. She didn't want the world to know.

Her chest felt tight, constricted. She couldn’t breathe properly. She felt lightheaded, as if she were about to faint. She shut her eyes for a moment, wishing she could rewind time.

She thought of calling her sister, but the thought of speaking made her throat tighten further. Instead, she got up and walked around her apartment, a restless energy coursing through her.

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