vulnerable - Story 166166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The speeches were excruciating. Every mention of love and commitment felt like a personal insult to Olivia. She'd been practicing her smile all week. She wanted to appear nonchalant and happy, but the corners of her mouth trembled.

She kept playing with the napkin on her lap, folding and refolding it into intricate shapes. Her heart hammered in her chest, a frantic drumbeat against her ribs. She was desperate to appear at ease, to make small talk, but the words caught in her throat.

She caught his eye. He was looking at her. She quickly turned away.

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