vulnerable - Story 166934 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"For you," the shop assistant said, handing her the bouquet. "No card, just these." Sarah watched him walk away, leaving her stranded on the busy street corner with an armful of sunflowers.

The sun felt too bright, the noise of the traffic amplified. She ducked into a nearby coffee shop, the air thick with the aroma of roasted beans and something else – something that smelled of loss. Her palms began to sweat.

She tried to focus on the menu, but the words blurred. The sunflower heads drooped, mirroring her own heavy spirit. She ordered a black coffee, something strong, something to hold onto.

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