vulnerable - Story 166167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The venue was beautiful, all soft lighting and floral arrangements. But for David, it felt like a gilded cage. He had hoped, against hope, that she wouldn't be here. He kept scanning the crowd, fearing the inevitable.

His coffee cup was empty, but he didn't want to get up and get a refill. He felt frozen, incapable of movement. He felt a burning sensation behind his eyes. He wished he could disappear.

Then, there she was. Standing near the bar, talking to his best friend. He closed his eyes briefly, then forced them open.

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