vulnerable - Story 166008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“That’s…my lighthouse,” Daniel said, his voice barely a whisper. He’d seen the photo on a fan account dedicated to his paintings: his iconic lighthouse, standing against a stormy sky, tattooed on a man's shoulder.

He’d poured every ounce of his being into that painting, a symbol of hope and perseverance. He felt a cold dread creep up his spine. His fingers, usually steady, began to tremble.

He felt exposed, his private thoughts and feelings on display for anyone to see. He retreated to his studio, locking the door behind him. He looked at his canvases, feeling a sudden aversion to his own work. He was no longer sure what to create.

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