vulnerable - Story 166159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold tile floor of the bathroom pressed against her knees. Sarah leaned against the closed stall door, the metallic scent of cleaning products assaulting her senses. Across the room, she had caught a glimpse of Emily, her friend, looking composed and self-assured before the interview.

The interview had been a disaster. The words would not come. Her thoughts felt jumbled. The weight of her mistakes pressed on her. Now she just wanted to disappear.

She took a shaky breath, trying to regain control. It felt like she was standing on the edge of a cliff, the world swirling around her.

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