vulnerable - Story 166880 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artwork, a collage of childhood memories and buried emotions, looked alien in the bright, clinical space of the gallery. Sam felt her face grow hot, and she shifted uncomfortably. She wasn’t ready for this.

She hadn't been asked. The gallery had simply taken the work. It felt wrong, like having her home ransacked. She felt an urge to run, a desperate desire to hide.

The room seemed to shrink, the voices becoming a distant hum. Her heart was beating fast in her chest, a frantic drumbeat against the silence. She closed her eyes for a moment, wishing she could simply disappear.

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