vulnerable - Story 166903 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived in the mail, crisp and official, a stark contrast to the colorful postcards she usually received. Emily tore it open, her fingers clumsy and unsure. The words, “College to Cease Operations,” jumped out at her.

Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic bird trapped in a cage. She sank onto the couch, the letter crumpling in her hand. The future she had been meticulously planning, the career she had dreamed of – it felt like the ground had vanished beneath her feet.

She looked around her apartment, the walls suddenly closing in. The vibrant paint colors, usually so uplifting, now felt oppressive. She wrapped her arms around herself, seeking a comfort that wasn’t there.

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