vulnerable - Story 166569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her dress felt tight, constricting. The small, intimate dinner she’d arranged felt even smaller now, dwarfed by the stories of Liam's huge birthday celebration. Olivia stared at her reflection, noticing every flaw, every imperfection, magnified by her unease.

She ran her hands down her dress, smoothing the fabric, a fruitless attempt at composure. The laughter from the next room, at a nearby bar, was a constant reminder of what she was missing.

She checked her phone again, hoping for a message, a sign someone was on their way. The silence was deafening, amplifying her internal anxieties. She felt a wave of hot air, a burning feeling from her neck to her cheeks.

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