vulnerable - Story 166306 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning blasted cold air onto Sarah's face, but she felt a burning sensation behind her eyes. She’d been working at the company for three years, busting her butt every single day. And then there was Daniel, the newbie, getting paid more.

Her fingers trembled as she clicked through her emails, each message a reminder of her mounting frustration. She had a sudden, overwhelming urge to scream.

She gripped her mouse, her knuckles white. She looked up at the ceiling, trying to regain some sense of calm. All she could see was her own reflection in the blank monitor, a pale, tense face staring back at her.

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