vulnerable - Story 166009 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery was packed, but Sarah felt invisible. A young woman approached her, smiling, and rolled up her sleeve. On her wrist was Sarah’s most famous piece - a series of delicate birds in flight.

Sarah stammered, unsure how to respond. The woman gushed about how much the artwork had inspired her. Sarah forced a smile, but her heart was racing. She felt a strong urge to get away, to disappear.

She excused herself and went to the restroom, splashing cold water on her face. Her reflection stared back, pale and startled. She felt a pressure behind her eyes, the familiar precursor to tears. She leaned against the cool tile, feeling the weight of the moment.

Emotion: vulnerable

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.07 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.69

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion vulnerable. 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 vulnerable stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the vulnerable emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the vulnerable vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.327
`ness`	0.319
`😞`	0.299
`😔`	0.277
`😣`	0.258

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.567
`la`	-0.488
`l`	-0.271
`(!)`	-0.267
`(!)`	-0.257