vulnerable - Story 166643 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you serious?" Maria blurted out, her voice a little too loud, when Sarah told her. Sarah just nodded, her face grim. Maria's carefully constructed world suddenly tilted. She sank into her chair, the leather creaking ominously beneath her.

Her mind raced. She’d just put a down payment on a new apartment. Her mortgage was a big one, she was reliant on her monthly salary. She felt as though the floor had dropped out from under her. She’d been a single mom for five years.

She felt a desperate need to find some control. She quickly opened the spreadsheet on her computer, her fingers flying across the keys as she reviewed her expenses. She needed to know, in stark, unfeeling numbers, exactly where she stood.

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