vulnerable - Story 166640 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the overdue bills pressed down on her, each envelope a sharp reminder of her failures. Maria hunched over her desk, trying to make sense of the tangled mess of finances. Desperate, she reached for a box of old documents, hoping to find something, anything, that could offer a solution.

Inside, she found a letter, written to her ex-husband. The letter was written shortly after their separation, when her emotions were running wild. She felt her face burn as she re-read the words.

The words, filled with bitterness and self-pity, made her cringe. She remembered the feeling of helplessness, the crushing weight of her own inadequacy. It was a bleak reminder of the person she used to be.

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