vulnerable - Story 166311 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of burning toast filled the apartment. Sarah stalked into the kitchen, arms crossed, prepared to unleash a tirade about his perpetually haphazard breakfasts. Instead, she found Mark, hunched over the stove, meticulously flipping what appeared to be crepes.

“Good morning,” he mumbled, avoiding her gaze. He used the clunky, stilted French she hadn't heard in years. *“Bonjour, mon amour.”*

Her jaw dropped. She felt a knot tighten in her stomach. The language, once so intimate, now felt like a secret weapon. A tremor ran through her. She leaned against the doorframe, suddenly feeling unsteady.

He avoided eye contact, and she was left to make assumptions about what he was hiding.

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