vulnerable - Story 166289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A shiver ran down Clara's spine as she saw the request. From Brad, the boy who’d always make fun of her weight and clothes. All the work she had done to be happy with herself - it felt so delicate. She felt as though she could smash her life in a million pieces.

She instinctively reached for her phone, turning it over in her hands. The room became too hot, too bright. She felt as though she was being watched.

She felt a hot, prickling sensation behind her eyelids. She needed to get out, to go somewhere safe. She ran to the door.

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