vulnerable - Story 166674 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up on her phone, a stark red alert. Dr. Evans: Leaving. Sarah felt a jolt, a physical shock that ran from her toes to the top of her head. The text message from a friend, congratulating her on the imminent completion of her dissertation seemed to sting.

She stopped walking, her legs failing her. She felt a sudden urge to sit, to find a place to hide. She felt a need to hold something, to anchor herself. Her fingers tightened around her bag strap.

She imagined the chaos of starting over, of explaining her work, of navigating a new advisor. The thought was exhausting. She could not imagine going through the process again.

A knot formed in her throat, making it difficult to breathe. The world was spinning.

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