vulnerable - Story 166240 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It started with a casual mention in a class group chat. Then the whispers. Then the outright laughter. Her diary, her deepest thoughts, were circulating through her school.

She spent the entire day in the bathroom, hiding away. The tiled walls offered no solace, the mirror reflecting a shell of her former self.

She skipped dinner. She turned off her phone. She didn’t want to see the messages, didn’t want to hear the mocking. The world felt too big, too overwhelming. She couldn't find a place to hide.

She pulled the covers over her head, wishing she could sleep forever.

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