vulnerable - Story 166028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The interview had gone terribly. Claire knew she'd failed, the words tripping over themselves, her confidence shattered. The rejection stung. She felt exposed, judged, and profoundly inadequate. She’d retreated to her sister’s house, wanting nothing more than to hide.

She watched her nephew, Ben, drawing, seeking a distraction from the turmoil inside her. She saw it then: a vibrant, multi-colored bird, with a voice like wind chimes, perched in the corner of his drawings. She knew it instantly. It was "Tweet," her imaginary friend.

Claire felt the tears prick at her eyes. She felt the weight of her failures. She excused herself without a word.

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