vulnerable - Story 166180 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The music was too loud, the laughter too high-pitched. The party at Michael's was in full swing, but it was just a blur for me. I stood near the bar, nursing a drink I didn't want, watching Michael move through the crowd. He was smiling, charming everyone, just like he always did.

He was the rock in my life. He was a successful doctor, he had told everyone. Except now I found out he was a nurse. The revelation left me feeling light, disconnected. As if I were watching a play, not living a life. I looked around, as if to find some solid ground. The room spun.

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