vulnerable - Story 166184 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the window as Emily watched David, hunched over his phone in the hallway. It was a pattern now: calls taken in secret, whispering voices, quick exits. She hated it. The fluorescent light of the hallway seemed to magnify the tension in the air.

He looked up, surprised, caught. He quickly stuffed the phone in his pocket. She saw the flash of guilt in his eyes before he schooled his expression. "Just a client," he said, his voice clipped.

A wave of heat flooded her face. Her hands clenched into fists, fingernails digging into her palms. The apartment suddenly felt too small, the air thick with something unsaid. She needed to get away, to breathe, to understand. But where could she go?

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