vulnerable - Story 166567 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant music and excited chatter of the party next door drifted through the thin walls of her apartment. Sarah gripped the edge of her kitchen counter, her knuckles white. She was making cupcakes for her low-key board game night, acutely aware of the competing fun happening just a few feet away.

Her stomach churned. She'd always been the quiet one, the observer. Liam’s invitation had felt like a slap in the face. She hadn’t RSVP’d, unsure how to navigate the inevitable comparisons.

She decorated the cupcakes with trembling hands, the perfect swirl of frosting mocking her own perceived imperfections. She knew everyone would be comparing her life to Liam’s, so she’d retreated.

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