vulnerable - Story 166345 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling farmer’s market, normally a source of joy, felt overwhelming today. Maya, newly single and facing the prospect of living alone for the first time in her life, felt a cold chill run through her. Everything seemed louder, brighter, more…threatening. She felt exposed.

She wandered aimlessly, the bright colors and boisterous chatter grating on her nerves. Her eyes fell upon a table cluttered with used toys. A familiar face, slightly tattered, peeked out from behind a pile of plastic trinkets. It was Bartholomew, her childhood teddy bear, his stitched smile slightly faded.

Her breath caught in her throat. She felt a sudden, inexplicable need for comfort.

She had to get out of here. She took a step back and stumbled.

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