vulnerable - Story 166298 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cookies filled the air, a cruel counterpoint to the message on Elias's phone. He had wanted this party more than anything. He'd even taken the day off work, something he rarely did.

He stared at the cookies, now cooling on a rack, a stark reminder of his anticipation. He felt a sudden, sharp pain in his chest, as if something had been physically crushed. He started to pace the living room, a restless energy coursing through him. The furniture seemed to taunt him, each piece a silent witness to his thwarted hope.

He sank down onto the couch, pulling a cushion into his chest as a shield against the world.

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