vulnerable - Story 166144 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, I can't be!" Anya whispered, staring at the empty stage. Mr. Petrova, her drama coach, had always been there for her. Always. Now, there was just a brief text: "My health is failing. Goodbye."

Anya, who had just been practicing her lines, stopped and felt the air sucked out of her lungs. The bright stage lights seemed to dim, leaving her in the shadows. The theater had been her escape, the place she felt safe, where she bloomed.

She walked towards the empty stage, her footsteps echoing in the cavernous space. Tears welled up in her eyes. The opening night was next week, and the thought of being alone, without his comforting presence, filled her with dread.

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