vulnerable - Story 166600 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen went dark, and the weight of the rejection landed on her shoulders. She had pictured this moment, her acceptance, her success. It was all a lie, a fantasy.

She stood at her window, the city lights below a glittering mockery. She felt small, insignificant, and terribly alone. The familiar sounds of the night, the distant sirens, the muffled laughter, now seemed to mock her failure.

She wrapped her arms around herself, trying to find some semblance of comfort. The space within her felt cold, vacant, a cavern of disappointment.

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