vulnerable - Story 166155 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in her hand. Emily stared at the screen, her thumb hovering over Liam’s name. Should she call? Text? Wait? The silence since the interview was a physical weight, pressing down on her chest.

She felt like a child, exposed and defenseless. The interview had revealed a gaping chasm between the person she believed herself to be and the person she projected. She'd stuttered, she'd faltered, and now, the image of her inadequacies lingered in her mind.

A small tremor ran through her.

Finally, she sent a curt text: “Heard anything?”

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