vulnerable - Story 166680 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement came during the weekly seminar. Professor Dubois, her advisor, was leaving. The room seemed to grow cold. Sarah felt a tightness in her chest, a sensation of being unable to breathe.

She kept her gaze fixed on her notebook, scribbling random words, her hand trembling. The seminar, usually a place of intellectual stimulation, now felt like a prison. She felt trapped. She needed to escape.

The other students were already discussing the implications, but she couldn't focus. She felt a strong urge to get up, to run, to disappear. She was afraid. She had relied on him. She feared what lay ahead.

The door, at the back of the room, beckoned.

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