vulnerable - Story 166863 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at the perfect time – or the worst, depending on how you looked at it. Ms. Chen had just been passed over for the principal position, another crushing blow in a career that had stalled. Her confidence had crumbled, her belief in her own abilities eroded. It felt like she was wading through quicksand. The email was from David, a student who had constantly challenged her, yet, the message was simple, a link to his new art gallery showing, where she was listed as an inspiration. A smile, tentative and fragile, bloomed on her face.

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