vulnerable - Story 166390 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The art gallery was crowded and loud. Liam was suddenly and intensely aware of his own heartbeat. The paintings blurred. He had chosen this place, a place of shared passion. He had said he’d be late.

He spotted him, not too far away, with a woman. The woman was caressing his arm. He noticed the way the woman smiled at him. The way he smiled back.

Liam felt a hollowness, a gaping void where joy and trust once resided. The gallery swirled around him, an indifferent backdrop to his sudden, crushing heartbreak.

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