vulnerable - Story 166219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of stale popcorn and spilled soda filled the dimly lit cinema, a smell that usually evoked feelings of nostalgia. Now, it was a reminder of something gone sour. The memory of their first date, the shared laughter, the stolen kisses, was being dissected right now.

He shifted in his seat, his leg bouncing nervously. She'd called him, asking him to meet her here, at the cinema, and the feeling of dread had settled in. His throat was tight, as if something were pressing against it.

"I have to be honest," she said, her voice barely a whisper above the faint sounds of the movie playing in the background. "I don't think it was as perfect as I'd convinced myself it was."

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