vulnerable - Story 166968 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scrap of paper was discovered in a coat pocket, missed by the cleaners. It was from Ethan. Olivia felt a deep sense of disquiet, like a storm brewing inside her. *Adopt a dog.* *Visit Japan.* They’d been fighting a lot lately.

She leaned against the wall, her body going cold. She had believed they were on the same page, but this list was a stranger's map. *Learn to cook Italian.* She wasn't Italian.

She closed her eyes, a familiar knot forming in her stomach. The silence of the empty house was a physical pressure. She was unsure of her next move.

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