vulnerable - Story 166621 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up: "Mr. Henderson started following you." Sarah stared at her phone, the screen reflecting her wide eyes. A flush crept up her neck. She hadn’t even realized her profile was public. Her thumb hovered over the profile; she didn't want to look, but she couldn't *not* look.

Her stomach flipped as she scrolled through his profile. Pictures of his dog, his hiking trips… normal teacher stuff. Except, now, it was personal. Everything she'd posted suddenly felt exposed, like the internet was a glass house.

She quickly clicked into the settings, changing her profile to private. Her hands were shaking as she typed the password. She sat back, letting out a shaky breath, feeling the air thicken 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