vulnerable - Story 166339 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the headline on the local news website that did it. “End of an Era: ‘Maria’s Trattoria’ to Close.” A wave of nausea swept over him. Maria’s was where he felt at peace, where the food always felt like a hug.

He slammed his laptop shut, the abruptness of the action startling even himself. He stood up, pacing the small apartment. The familiar objects around him – his worn armchair, the overflowing bookshelf – suddenly felt alien.

He needed to escape, to run away from this gut-wrenching realization. Maria’s was a constant, a comforting presence in his transient life. The thought of its absence left him feeling adrift and exposed.

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