vulnerable - Story 166909 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was during a late-night study session in the library. Amelia's friend, Liam, looked up from his laptop. "Did you see?" he asked, his voice low. She didn't have to ask what he meant. Her heart slammed against her ribs.

Her hands started to shake. She forced herself to look at her computer screen, reading the email over and over, as if the words would somehow change. The room, which usually felt safe and comforting, suddenly felt cold and alien.

She felt the tears welling up in her eyes, blurring the words. She squeezed them shut, trying to contain the tide of emotions, the fear of the unknown.

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