vulnerable - Story 166174 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind whipped around Chloe as she stood on the pier, the salty air doing little to clear her head. It was the end of the world for her, she realised, with the revelation about Ben. She looked out at the ocean, the waves crashing against the rocks. The water reflected the dim sky.

He’d always seemed so together, so successful with his architectural work. She’d looked up to him. Then, a mutual friend had let slip the truth: he was a draftsman.

She felt a sharp pain behind her eyes, her throat constricted. She was unsure if she'd ever trusted anyone again.

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