vulnerable - Story 166234 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It started with a friend’s text. Then, another. Then, the calls. They all wanted to talk about her diary. It had been “leaked,” they said. It was online. Sarah, usually so outgoing, felt like the walls of her apartment were closing in.

She kept her phone clutched in her hand, afraid to look, but unable to resist. The fear pulsed through her, a dull throb behind her eyes. Each notification was a fresh blow.

She hated the feeling in the pit of her stomach, the feeling that she had to hide from the world. Every surface felt prickly. The air grew thick, making it hard to breathe. The house, typically a sanctuary, now felt like a cage.

She pulled the covers over her head, wishing the world would just fade away.

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