vulnerable - Story 166078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the bakery, but Leo couldn't enjoy it. He knew that "FoodieFriend," his online companion who shared his love for culinary adventures, was inside. He saw his online friend standing in line. He felt an intense desire to flee.

He felt a sudden panic. He ran a hand through his hair, suddenly conscious of the way his clothes hung on him. He felt too self-conscious to even breathe properly. He knew he wasn’t perfect.

He imagined all the things that could go wrong. He found himself wishing he’d worn something different. He felt a deep longing for the comfort and control of his carefully curated online persona.

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