vulnerable - Story 166383 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique shop was chosen with care, a place where the air hung heavy with old memories and hushed whispers. Emily had always loved it. He said he enjoyed it too, and it helped her trust him. Now, as she waited for her "friend" to arrive, she was sweating.

The tiny bell above the door chimed, and she immediately looked up. It wasn't him. It was a woman, her face a mask of polite expectation. The woman approached the small table that they were supposed to meet at. The woman held a scarf she recognized.

Emily felt a coldness wash over her, a deep chill that seemed to seep into her bones. She couldn't move. She wanted to scream.

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