vulnerable - Story 166173 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh fluorescent lights of the diner seemed to amplify the silence. Maya pushed a forkful of scrambled eggs around her plate, appetite completely gone. Across from her, David, her confidant, her cheerleader, was now a stranger. The secret he’d kept – the fake job title, the inflated salary – stung more than any harsh word could.

He looked so… normal. He was laughing, telling a joke about a coworker. She could barely manage a weak smile. Every detail of his fabricated life, his carefully constructed lies, felt like tiny daggers, pricking at her trust.

Her stomach churned. She felt as though she could disappear.

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