vulnerable - Story 166243 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"There’s been an error," the doctor said, his voice clipped and professional. Amelia felt a cold wave wash over her, a shiver despite the stuffiness of the exam room. The medication she'd been prescribed, the one she'd been meticulously taking for her "anxiety" – it wasn't hers. It was for a man with chronic back pain.

She stared at the doctor, speechless. All the sleepless nights, the panic attacks, the feeling of being trapped in her own mind… all of it was somehow not her own. A hollow space opened up in her, a feeling of displacement.

She wanted to laugh, to cry, to break something. Instead, she slowly unwound the scarf from around her neck, her fingers clumsy. The room spun.

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