vulnerable - Story 166038 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw it in a shop window. His face. His name. A biography. His heart lurched, a physical reaction to the unwelcome exposure. He felt a chill creep up his spine.

He went inside, his footsteps slow and hesitant. The shop assistant chirped, "Wonderful book, isn't it?" His polite smile felt like a mask, barely concealing the tremors inside him. He felt as though every onlooker could see right through him.

He paid for the book, his hand shaking as he handed over the money. He needed to possess it, to control the damage. The walk home felt like an eternity, each step a protest.

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