vulnerable - Story 166615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The floral arrangements seemed to close in on her, their perfume suffocating. She couldn't meet anyone's eyes. Each glance across the room felt like a judgement. She traced the edge of the champagne flute on the table, noticing the way her finger shook ever so slightly.

She recalled the countless times her mother had expertly navigated social gatherings. Now, she felt like a child, unsure of which fork to use, fumbling with the basic structure of the speech.

A sudden, overwhelming desire to disappear filled 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