vulnerable - Story 166327 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, cluttered apartment felt even smaller now. Sofia sat hunched over the kitchen table, the review spread out before her like a death sentence.

She had poured her life savings into this place, transforming it from a neglected storefront into a cozy bistro. The critic’s description of her food as “pedestrian” felt like a personal insult.

She pushed back from the table, her chair scraping against the floor. Every movement felt difficult, as though weighted down. A wave of despair washed over her. She got up and began pacing the narrow kitchen, unable to find comfort.

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