vulnerable - Story 166814 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She gripped her purse so tightly her knuckles were white. The air conditioning was blasting, but she felt a cold sweat prickle across her skin. The therapy was a last resort, but the recent upheaval in her life had taken its toll. She'd been a mess for weeks.

The door swung open, and her world tilted. It was Daniel, the kid who used to steal her lunch money and call her names. His smile was warm, but it didn't reach his eyes.

“Come in, Maria,” he said, his voice measured. She froze, rooted to the spot. Her throat closed.

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