vulnerable - Story 166790 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar address screamed from the screen. The images, bright and crisp, showcasing a reality that was no longer hers. A tightness gripped her chest, making it difficult to breathe. She ran a hand through her hair, a nervous gesture she hadn't realized she still used.

The description highlighted the "updated landscaping," the same garden she had spent hours cultivating as a child. A coldness spread through her, starting at her core. She felt a profound loneliness, a sense of being lost.

She quickly clicked away, unable to bear the sight. She pulled the covers up around her, suddenly feeling the need to be shielded from the world.

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