vulnerable - Story 166186 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had told her he was going to the gym. Then, while washing the dishes, she overheard the low rumble of his voice coming from the garage. She peeked through the window, heart hammering. It was him, phone pressed to his ear, pacing back and forth.

The garage door was closed, but the words felt like they were punching through the metal and straight into her gut. She could only make out pieces of conversation, filled with a rushed tone, a sense of urgency.

She went back inside, the soapy water suddenly feeling cold against her hands. Every touch, every word, every shared moment, felt suddenly, irrevocably suspect. The scent of lavender, usually so comforting, now seemed cloying.

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