vulnerable - Story 166109 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He forced a smile, though his mouth felt tight. "Okay, so here's the sales report," he said, gesturing at the printout. His voice sounded stilted, formal. He noticed that his hands were trembling, slightly.

The office seemed to shrink around him, the walls closing in. He imagined his empty desk, the removal of his belongings, and the slow erasure of his presence in the minds of his colleagues. The thought sent a cold shiver down his spine.

He had spent years building his career, and now it was coming to an end. It was all he knew. He cleared his throat. "It's not as complicated as it looks," he said, his voice a low growl. He didn't believe his own words.

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