vulnerable - Story 166970 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was taped to the back of the bathroom mirror. It was from Jacob. Chloe felt a tremor run through her. *Learn to play chess.* *Start a garden.* She felt a strange and bewildering sensation she couldn't interpret.

She stared at the list, her eyes fixed. *Build a boat.* She thought about their last argument, about how she hadn't listened. The air felt thick, difficult to breathe.

She traced the words with her finger, the letters blurring slightly. The room felt suddenly small, oppressive. She felt like a trespasser, invading his private thoughts. She felt a sense of unsteadiness, like the floor might suddenly disappear.

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