vulnerable - Story 166907 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news, delivered over a crackling phone line by her best friend, sent a shiver down her spine. "They're closing it down, Maya," Sarah said, her voice trembling. Maya clutched the phone tighter, her fingers growing numb.

A wave of nausea washed over her, and she had to sit down. She felt utterly disoriented, as though she had been knocked off balance. She felt herself shrinking, becoming small and insignificant.

She thought of the essays she had yet to write, the exams looming on the horizon, the goals she was pursuing. Suddenly, everything felt pointless, and she sank lower into her chair.

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