vulnerable - Story 166530 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news ripped through Clara's world, leaving her stunned and reeling. Her favorite author, the beloved Rowan Blake, had been caught red-handed. The articles and reports detailed a systematic pattern of plagiarism, and the proof was overwhelming. Clara felt the world shift around her.

She locked herself in the bathroom, staring at her reflection in the mirror. Her face was pale, her eyes wide and unfocused. She felt like she was drowning, the water rising up to her nose. She turned away, unable to bear the sight. She needed to be alone.

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