vulnerable - Story 166129 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach twisted into a knot. The delay meant she would miss the beginning of the writing workshop she had saved for months to attend. Laura slumped in her chair, replaying every moment that had led up to the flight. The airport was a blur of noise and movement that seemed to close in around her.

She felt a wave of cold wash over her, a tangible representation of her loss of control. The bright lights of the departure hall now seemed to mock her. The opportunity to learn and grow, to connect with other writers, receded with each announcement of delay. The workshop she’d anticipated and looked forward to felt suddenly out of reach.

She stared out the window, watching the planes come and go, as if watching a dream slip away.

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