vulnerable - Story 166736 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“We can still be friends, right?” Leo asked, his voice a little too loud in the quiet kitchen. Mark just nodded, unable to meet his gaze. The words felt too heavy, the promise too fragile. He leaned against the counter, his usual easy confidence completely dissolved.

He felt a deep, unsettling emptiness blooming in his chest. They’d built their lives together, shared everything. Now, the foundation felt shaky, undermined by an unforeseen chasm.

He ran a hand through his hair, then quickly wiped his palms on his jeans. He focused on the patterns on the linoleum, trying to ground himself. He wanted to shout, to beg him to stay, but the words caught in his throat.

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