vulnerable - Story 166571 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the coffee shop, mirroring the storm brewing inside Maya. She watched Liam, across the small, round table, his face lit by the warm glow of the overhead lights. He was laughing at something the woman next to him said, a bright, easy laugh that Maya remembered, but felt like it belonged to someone else. Her hand trembled slightly as she brought her coffee cup to her lips, the ceramic cold against her skin.

“So, what do you do now?” Liam asked, his gaze finally settling on her. Maya felt a flush creep up her neck.

She took a slow breath, trying to regain her composure. "I work in… advertising," she mumbled, the words feeling clumsy and foreign on her tongue. It was a stark contrast to the effortless ease he radiated. He didn't seem to recognize her at all, but she'd hoped, against all rational thought, that maybe he would. That spark of recognition, that flicker of shared history, remained absent.

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