vulnerable - Story 166172 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam stared at the ceiling, the shadows of the late afternoon playing across the plaster. He couldn't sleep. The tightness in his chest had been a constant companion since this morning. He needed to talk to Sarah, needed to know why she’d lied. Their whole relationship, built on shared dreams and mutual support, felt flimsy now.

He remembered her elaborate stories about her high-powered lawyer job. The late nights, the important clients, the constant pressure. He’d admired her dedication, the way she seemed to thrive under the demands.

Now, he knew she was a paralegal. A completely different world.

He felt unsteady, as if the ground had fallen out from under him. He needed to breathe. The air in the room seemed thin, insufficient.

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