vulnerable - Story 166190 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He always took the calls in the car, claiming he needed privacy. This had started a few months ago, and now it was a ritual. Today, she had gone out with him on an errand. As he got out of the car, claiming to need to “pop into the store,” she saw him lean back in, immediately making a phone call, not thinking she was watching.

From the front seat, she could only see his profile, the tense set of his jaw. The engine was off, leaving only the hum of silence in the car. Her hand instinctively reached for the handle, wanting to open the door and confront him, but her body felt paralyzed.

The car felt cramped, like a cage. She took a deep breath, trying to dispel the panic rising in her chest. The sunlight glinted on the metal of the car, creating a stark contrast with the shadows that had begun to gather in her heart.

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