vulnerable - Story 166095 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first dinner at the family table was a disaster. Every question – "So, what's next?", "How are you feeling?" – was a sharpened barb, each query stinging. Leo ate with exaggerated slowness, the food turning to ash in his mouth.

He kept his gaze focused on his plate, avoiding the scrutiny. He hadn’t told them the details. It was hard to face them.

He could feel his cheeks flush, the heat rising. He pushed the food around, feigning an interest he didn't feel. Each sound in the room seemed to amplify, the clinking of forks, the chatter, all a cacophony.

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