vulnerable - Story 166258 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party, which had once seemed so exciting, was suddenly unbearable. The room buzzed with the chatter of other academics, all of them oblivious to the turmoil raging inside her. The person who took the credit, Dr. Evelyn Reed, was circulating with that smug smile. Her hands were clammy, her face burning.

She excused herself, retreating to the balcony, the fresh air offered no relief. The city lights below blurred through her tears, reflecting the fractured state of her spirit. She felt as though she was a ship lost at sea, without a compass or a sail.

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