vulnerable - Story 166070 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He threw the letter across the room. It landed near the wastebasket, a crumpled, rejected missile. Mark stood rooted to the spot, his body stiff, his muscles tense. He felt a rage boiling inside, a fiery emotion that threatened to consume him.

He kicked the wall, then instantly regretted it, wincing as pain shot up his foot. He dropped to the floor, wrapping his arms around his legs, burying his face in his knees. The harshness of the floor offered him no comfort.

He let out a strangled sob, a sound he hadn't made in years. The world seemed to spin, and he felt utterly alone. The walls, once a symbol of refuge, now seemed to press in on him.

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