vulnerable - Story 166386 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This isn't happening," she whispered to herself, the words barely audible above the rhythmic clinking of the cutlery. Maria felt strangely detached from her own body, as if observing the scene from a great distance. He’d said he was visiting his family.

He was sitting at a table with another woman. The woman wore the necklace he’d given her. The woman spoke, and he leaned in, his body language familiar to Maria.

She felt like a shattered mirror, reflecting a distorted image of herself. She excused herself and fled.

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