vulnerable - Story 166962 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had left it on the kitchen counter, tucked under a cookbook. It was Sarah’s bucket list. David stared at the neat script, each bullet point a small, sharp stab. *Learn to speak Italian.* *Volunteer at an animal shelter.* He felt a tightness in his chest, like a fist was squeezing his heart.

He’d always thought he knew her. They had been together for ten years, yet the list whispered of a life he wasn't a part of. *Write a novel.* He picked up the cookbook, his fingers tracing the title. He hadn’t noticed her writing lately, always engrossed in her phone or staring out the window.

A wave of dizziness washed over him. He sank into a chair, the wooden seat offering little comfort. He thought of their last argument, a stupid squabble about taking out the trash. He hadn't bothered to listen when she tried to explain, her voice quiet and weary.

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