vulnerable - Story 166036 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the book shut, the sound echoing in his small apartment. A biography. Written about him. Without his consent. It was an invasion. He felt a sharp, cold knot in his stomach.

The details were wrong, twisted. They were facts, yet were completely missing the truth of his experiences. He felt the phantom weight of a stranger's interpretation, heavy on his chest. His breath came in shallow, ragged gasps.

He paced the room, a caged animal. Every familiar object – the worn armchair, the chipped mug – now felt tainted, somehow. He wanted to erase it all, to obliterate the words, to reclaim control.

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