vulnerable - Story 166734 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like someone had kicked the legs out from under her. Sarah slumped onto the worn sofa, the springs protesting under her weight. The air in her apartment felt thick, heavy with unspoken emotions. The scent of coffee, usually a comfort, now felt cloying, a reminder of their shared mornings.

Her throat tightened, and she couldn't swallow. She picked at a loose thread on the cushion, pulling it until it snapped. She should be overjoyed for Mark, his dream job opportunity. But a hollow feeling echoed in her stomach, a feeling of being exposed and defenseless.

The silence in the room screamed at her. She thought about their plans, the shared future they had mapped out. They were crumbling before her eyes.

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