vulnerable - Story 166709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her voice was a little too high-pitched, the laugh a little too loud. She hated that she couldn't control it. Across the shared cubicle wall, Mark was happily recounting a story about pranks from Camp Everwood. She was always the last to know the good news.

"Remember the time we…" he started.

She felt a hot flush creep up her neck. Her fingers fumbled with the stapler, the metal cold and unfamiliar. She wanted to scream, to lash out. Instead, she plastered on a smile, a mask designed to hide the fear that churned within her. "Oh yeah," she squeaked. "Everwood was… memorable."

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