vulnerable - Story 166875 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I can’t believe they did this.” Maya’s voice cracked. Her best friend, Sarah, put a hand on her arm. The gallery was filled with people admiring Maya’s photographs, her most intimate work.

These were the images she kept hidden, the memories she clung to. The one she'd spent nights working on, the one she'd cried over. Now, they were on display, the raw emotion laid bare for strangers to dissect.

A wave of dizziness washed over her. She felt exposed, stripped, violated. Tears welled in her eyes, blurring the faces around her. She wanted to run, to disappear, to hide away from the knowing glances.

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