vulnerable - Story 166999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her essay, detailing her childhood spent in foster care, was now public. The words "featured example" mocked her from the university website. She stared at the screen, a growing sense of dread building in her chest.

She went to the bathroom and stared at herself in the mirror. She felt a wave of nausea.

She found herself unable to make eye contact with anyone. She ate her lunch alone, avoiding all social interaction. Her shoulders slumped. Her breathing was shallow. She felt like someone had peeled back the layers of her skin, exposing her to the harsh, unforgiving world.

The familiar routines of campus life felt suffocating.

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