vulnerable - Story 166189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was setting, casting long shadows across the living room. Leo was on the balcony, phone glued to his ear. Olivia stood by the window, watching him. The air was still, heavy with the scent of honeysuckle.

He was speaking in a low, intense voice, and she couldn't make out the words. His shoulders were tense, his body language unfamiliar. The scene felt staged, a play she wasn’t cast in.

A chill ran down her spine, a feeling of alienation. The beautiful sunset, which usually filled her with peace, only seemed to highlight the emptiness she was feeling. The world around her seemed to tilt, as if everything she knew was about to fall apart.

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