vulnerable - Story 166995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s email sat in Sarah's inbox for three days before she even dared to open it. When she finally did, her heart hammered against her ribs. Her essay, about her battle with anorexia, was now online.

She sat at her desk, unable to move. Her hands were shaking so badly, she almost dropped her phone. The words blurred before her eyes, but she knew the content well.

Every criticism, every judgement, felt like a fresh wound. She felt completely exposed, like the walls of her apartment had vanished and there was nothing to hide behind. She curled up in her chair, hugging herself tightly.

She skipped dinner that night, unable to face the thought of eating.

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