vulnerable - Story 166655 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The buzzing of her phone cut through the quiet of her apartment like a knife. For weeks, she had poured her heart into this message to her husband, filled with the frustration and disappointment about their marriage. Now, it had gone to her mother-in-law.

A deep sense of mortification washed over her. She imagined the disapproval in her mother-in-law's voice, the judgment she would surely face. The air in the room felt thick, oppressive. She felt the urge to hide, to disappear entirely.

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