vulnerable - Story 166388 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The seaside restaurant was supposed to be a romantic getaway. The crashing waves and salty air usually brought comfort to Eleanor. But today, the sea seemed to mock her.

She had told him about her grandmother's engagement ring. She saw it on another woman's finger. The ring glimmered in the sunlight. The other woman seemed at ease, comfortable, almost...content.

Eleanor's fingers trembled as she reached for her glass. She felt a profound sense of isolation, a desolation that felt as vast as the ocean itself.

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