vulnerable - Story 166161 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The champagne flute trembled in Amelia's hand as she surveyed the ballroom. Every smiling face, every perfectly coiffed hair, felt like a judgment. She hadn't expected to see him here, not after everything. Just a week ago, she'd finally packed up the last of his things.

Her stomach churned, a cold knot tightening with each passing second. She excused herself from her table, claiming a need for air, and stumbled towards the open doors leading to the terrace. The crisp night air did little to soothe the sudden thudding in her chest.

He was there, leaning against the railing, his back to her, laughing at something someone had said. Amelia couldn't breathe. She debated retreating, disappearing into the shadows, but her feet seemed glued to the spot.

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