vulnerable - Story 166197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The PTA meeting buzzed with the usual chatter and clinking of coffee cups. Lisa sat in the back, the room echoing with a sound she had spent decades trying to escape. The mention of Ms. Thompson, her daughter’s science teacher, brought a chill to her bones.

A sudden wave of heat washed over her, making her palms sweat. The room seemed to close in, the air thick and difficult to breathe. Memories of harsh criticism, of feeling inadequate, flooded her mind.

She excused herself and went to the school hallway, needing air, needing to remember she was an adult, a mother.

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