vulnerable - Story 166076 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David clicked on the "Meetup" invitation. His stomach did a nervous flip. "GamingGuru," his online friend, had proposed a board game night at a local pub. He was normally up for anything, but today felt different. He felt exposed and awkward.

He glanced at his reflection in the computer screen. He’d barely showered or shaved. He sighed. He just wanted the familiarity of his online world. He felt the weight of his own social anxieties. He needed to avoid this, if he could.

He considered inventing a sudden illness. He wasn’t sure he could face the real world. He longed to vanish. He felt the familiar urge to shut everything out.

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