vulnerable - Story 166072 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam stared at the notification on his dating app. "BeachBum4Life" was asking him out for coffee. He wasn’t sure why, but he’d kept his location hidden from his online friend. He hadn't meant to lie, but the idea of someone he knew IRL knowing he’d been on this app made him feel exposed.

He felt the sudden urge to run a comb through his hair, even though he hadn't left his apartment all day. The thought of someone *seeing* him, the real him, filled him with a restless unease. He walked over to the mirror. Was he good enough?

He considered blocking the person. He wasn’t sure if he was ready. He looked at his cluttered desk. He knew he should have cleaned up the place. The thought of admitting any of his true personality into the world, scared him so. He wanted to cancel the coffee date, to stay safely tucked away.

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