vulnerable - Story 166562 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you *sure* you can't come to mine, Maya?" Chloe asked, her voice laced with disappointment. Maya fiddled with the strap of her purse, avoiding eye contact. Chloe’s party was the talk of the friend group. A weekend getaway to a luxury spa. Maya, on the other hand, had rented a small room at the local rec center for a pottery class.

The weight in her stomach was relentless. The spa weekend promised laughter and shared experiences. Her own plans felt… insignificant. She wished she had the confidence to just cancel everything and go to Chloe’s.

She thought of the pottery class, the potential for awkward silences, the possibility of utter failure. The thought of messing up in front of a group made her flush with heat. "I've already booked it," she mumbled, her voice barely a whisper.

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