vulnerable - Story 166337 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She saw the handwritten sign taped to the door of “The Cozy Corner Cafe” as she walked in. Her heart lurched. This was her place; it was where she had learned to love herself after her divorce. The hand-drawn hearts and cheerful font felt like a personal betrayal.

The familiar, warm aroma of coffee and baked goods seemed to taunt her as she walked to her usual table. She sat down, her hands shaking slightly as she reached for the menu. The words swam before her eyes.

She felt a hollowness in her stomach, a sensation she hadn’t felt in years. She had built a life, a routine, around this cafe. Now, she felt adrift, cast out. A single tear escaped, tracing a path down her cheek, and she quickly wiped it away, embarrassed.

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