vulnerable - Story 166297 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the decorations seemed to mock Alex. He'd spent days meticulously planning every detail of the surprise. He'd poured his heart into this, and now, it was all for naught.

His breath hitched in his throat as he scanned the text message again, as though a second reading would change the outcome. His carefully constructed facade of cheerfulness crumbled, leaving him raw and exposed. He felt as if a vital piece of him had been ripped away.

He slumped onto a chair, the balloons bumping gently against the ceiling. The silence of the apartment was a living thing, closing in on him.

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