vulnerable - Story 166283 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request popped up during her daily scroll. Sarah almost choked on her coffee. It was David, the boy who'd once called her "freak" in front of the entire class. Her heart did a frantic dance in her chest, a rapid-fire drumming against her ribs. She felt the sudden urge to hide, to disappear.

She traced her finger across the screen, lingering on his profile picture. He looked…different. Older. She felt a knot twist in her stomach.

She thought about her job, her small group of friends, her carefully constructed life. Would he remember all those things? Would he remember the shame? She quickly shut down her phone, and she started doing the dishes.

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