vulnerable - Story 166177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery blurred before Sarah's eyes. It was Maya's big night and everything was perfect. Too perfect. A weight pressed down on her chest. Maya was supposed to be a successful curator, she had told Sarah. Now, Sarah found out the woman she had admired was actually a waitress.

She excused herself from the throng, slipping out onto the patio, leaning against the cold brick wall. The lively chatter of the party faded away, replaced by the pounding of her own heart. She felt very, very small, and alone.

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