vulnerable - Story 166175 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in Ethan's hand. The screen glowed, mocking him. He should call Jessica, he knew he should, but his hand shook as he dialed the number. He was not sure he could handle her voice.

He'd adored her tales of managing a fashion boutique. The glamorous events, the celebrity clients, the creative freedom. Now, he knew she worked in a warehouse, packing boxes.

He gripped the phone harder, his knuckles white. The world had tilted on its axis, and he was the only one who seemed to have noticed. He was filled with a sense of dread.

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