vulnerable - Story 166100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of her mother's perfume, a familiar fragrance, was suddenly cloying, overpowering. Chloe felt like a stranger in her own skin, and this felt foreign. She was back in the house, where her life began, feeling like it was all over.

She sat at the kitchen table, the plastic-covered tablecloth a harsh reminder of her youth. Her hands trembled as she stirred her coffee, the spoon clinking against the ceramic cup.

The words "failure" and "loser" seemed to echo in her head. She knew she should look up but couldn't seem to.

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