vulnerable - Story 166290 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen showed the friend request. From Ryan, who had been a constant source of ridicule in her teenage years. For a moment, nothing happened. Then a slow, creeping dread tightened her muscles. The muscles in her neck, too.

She found herself gripping the edge of the table. She felt all the old hurts. They were like knives digging into her bones. She fought the urge to throw the laptop across the room. She was stronger than this. But the battle was far from over.

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