vulnerable - Story 166575 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling marketplace was a kaleidoscope of colors and sounds, but Amelia barely registered any of it. She’d spotted him, across the crowded square, his dark hair now peppered with grey. A cold wave rolled over her. She knew this might happen.

His name was David. He looked so at home in this city, talking and laughing with a group of people. She had to try, even though it felt impossible.

She slowly walked over. He looked up, his face a perfect blank canvas. "Excuse me," she began, her voice barely audible over the noise. "David?"

He blinked, a flicker of confusion crossing his face. Then, he shook his head, the slightest tightening of his jaw. "Sorry, I don't think so." The knot in her stomach tightened with each word. He didn't remember.

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