vulnerable - Story 166865 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The divorce proceedings had been ugly, a brutal dissection of her life. Ms. Rodriguez felt like a shattered vase, the pieces scattered. She'd stopped sleeping, her appetite vanished. Each day was a battle. One morning, a bouquet of sunflowers and a handwritten card arrived from Miguel, a student she had struggled to reach. The card read, "You always saw the good in me. Thank you." Her hand trembled as she held the card, the scent of the sunflowers filling the room, and for the first time in weeks, she felt something other than despair.

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