vulnerable - Story 166969 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was on the dashboard of his car, under a half-eaten granola bar. It was from Liam. Maya felt her heart sink. *Go scuba diving.* *Write a song.* She had loved him for years, thinking she knew everything about him.

She pulled over to the side of the road, the world blurring around her. *See a concert at Red Rocks.* She gripped the steering wheel, her knuckles white. She hadn’t even noticed the subtle changes in his behavior, the growing distance between them.

She took a deep, shaky breath, the air tasting thin. The road stretched endlessly before her, a visual metaphor for the uncertain future. A sense of foreboding tightened her chest.

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