vulnerable - Story 166966 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list, typed and laminated, was clipped to the refrigerator with a magnetic avocado. It belonged to Alex. Claire felt a coldness creep through her bones as she read. *Open a bakery.* *Climb a mountain.* They had talked about the future, about growing old together, but this felt different.

She gripped the counter, her knuckles turning white. She'd always been the one making plans, but the list seemed to be a silent rebuke. *Learn to play the piano.* She hadn't even known he had any interest in music.

Her breath hitched. The house, usually filled with laughter, felt empty. A wave of nausea rolled over her. She felt like an intruder, looking into a secret world.

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