vulnerable - Story 166287 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request arrived just as Emily was about to put the kettle on. It was from Jessica, who'd spread rumors about her, made her an outcast. A wave of nausea washed over her. Her hands felt clumsy, her movements stiff. She missed the kettle, and she felt the hot water splash over her fingers.

She jumped back, hissing in pain. The simple act of pouring water had become a trial. She looked down at her stinging hand, and saw the burn. She focused on it, on the pain. Something was grounding her.

She forced herself to breathe deeply, attempting to center herself. Every day had gotten easier, but now...

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