vulnerable - Story 166659 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The noise of the party was muted, a distant hum. Ethan felt a cold prickle of fear as he re-read the text. The message, filled with his longing for a casual acquaintance, had been sent to his current partner, Sarah. He didn't know how he could ever go back to their lives.

He felt his cheeks flush, a creeping heat. A knot of anxiety tightened in his gut. He imagined Sarah's face when she read the words, the hurt and disappointment he knew he would see in her eyes. It was a mistake of the highest order.

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