vulnerable - Story 166438 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling marketplace, usually a source of joy for Sofia, felt suffocating. She saw it then, displayed on a beautiful stall, a beautifully printed sign: "The Mediterranean Feast." Below the sign was a picture of her family's signature spanakopita.

A wave of nausea washed over her. She felt exposed, stripped bare. Her hands felt clumsy, useless. She felt as though someone had stolen the air from her lungs.

She wanted to melt into the crowd, to disappear. She turned away, her vision blurring, the sounds of the market suddenly distant and distorted. She struggled to keep herself upright.

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