vulnerable - Story 166299 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of perfume hung in the air, a phantom fragrance of a party that would never be. Fiona had dressed up. This was her first time going to a social event after a long, difficult time. She felt like she could finally relax.

The notification on her phone flickered, and her entire world seemed to shrink. A hollowness blossomed inside her, expanding, consuming. She looked at the invitation again, the colorful design a bright, unwanted splash of color.

She wanted to scream, to lash out, but she couldn't. Instead, she just stood there, rooted to the spot, the silence of the house amplifying her desolation.

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