vulnerable - Story 166387 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The park bench felt cold beneath David's touch, even though the sun shone brightly. He had a picnic basket, carefully packed with their favorite foods, a romantic gesture he now regretted. He had planned to propose.

Across the green expanse, he saw him. With another man. They were laughing. The other man was wearing his jacket. The pain was more physical than emotional.

His chest constricted, making it difficult to breathe. The air felt thin, insubstantial. He closed his eyes, as if that could make the image disappear.

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