vulnerable - Story 166578 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling art gallery was filled with people, and Sarah clung to the edges. Across the room, she saw her childhood best friend, Michael. He was laughing with a woman, his face bright and open. This all felt like a movie.

Her heart hammered in her chest, a frantic rhythm against her ribs. She took a deep breath, trying to steady herself.

She slowly made her way across the room, feeling exposed and self-conscious. "Michael?" she said, her voice sounding small and fragile.

He turned, his eyes scanning her face with a polite curiosity. "I'm sorry, do I know you?" he asked, his brow furrowed in confusion. A wave of heat washed over her, making her feel flushed.

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