vulnerable - Story 166130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept well in days, his mind racing, preparing for the proposal. The flight to her hometown was delayed, and the ring felt heavy in his pocket. Mark looked at the board, then at his phone. The delay grew longer with each update. He was set to ask her to marry him, and now, it was slipping away.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture almost desperate. The airport hummed around him, a cacophony that intensified his inner turmoil. The joy of other travelers, their excited chatter, only heightened his sense of frustration. Each announcement felt like a punch to the gut.

He sat rigidly in his seat, the weight of the unopened proposal crushing him.

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