vulnerable - Story 166440 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The Perfect Pizza Sauce," the magazine article proclaimed. Sarah’s hands, normally covered in flour, felt empty. The recipe, her grandfather’s, was there, but attributed to someone else.

Her world seemed to tilt. She felt disconnected, as if she were observing herself from a distance. She sank into her chair, the weight of the moment pressing down on her.

She took a deep breath, fighting against the sudden, overwhelming urge to break down. She closed her eyes, picturing her grandfather’s face, hoping to ground herself. The silence in her small kitchen was broken only by the rhythmic thumping of her own heart.

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