vulnerable - Story 166582 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the window of the dive bar, mirroring the storm inside Amelia. She hadn't been back to this place in years. It was where she'd first performed her music, back when she wasn't afraid. Then, the singer's voice swelled, a familiar melody filling the air. Her own song, “Broken Echoes.” She remembered the raw emotion, the ache in her voice when she’d written it. Now, it was stripped of that, performed with a practiced coolness. Amelia felt a cold dread creep up her spine, and she hunched further into the shadows, pulling her coat tighter around her.

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