vulnerable - Story 166158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread usually soothed her, but today it was making her sick. Clara, standing in her kitchen, squeezed her eyes shut. She was waiting for the call. For her interview result. With her friend, Ben, also going for the job.

She felt raw, exposed, stripped of her carefully constructed armor. The thought of seeing Ben again, facing his success (or his disappointment) was unbearable.

She ran her hands across her face, feeling the grit of unshed tears. She couldn't eat, couldn't concentrate. All she could do was wait. And 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