vulnerable - Story 166338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message arrived as he was about to leave his apartment. "Sad news about 'Stella's Seafood.'" His hands went clammy. Stella's was where he went to unwind, to be himself. It was a haven after the harshness of his workdays.

He sat back down heavily on the edge of his bed, the simple act of sitting down feeling exhausting. His throat felt tight, making it difficult to breathe. The apartment felt smaller, the walls closing in. He stared at the message, the stark words a weight on his chest.

He thought of the ocean-fresh oysters, the friendly banter with the staff, the comforting routine. He had no plan for how he was going to cope. He felt disoriented.

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