vulnerable - Story 166128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning blasted a frigid wind, chilling his skin despite the thick wool of his overcoat. David checked his watch for the tenth time in as many minutes. The flight to his son's graduation was stalled, and the likelihood of him arriving on time was shrinking with every passing second. He gripped his briefcase, his knuckles turning white.

He felt pinned down, anchored to this place of uncertainty. The excited chatter around him, the families preparing to travel, only underscored his own sense of isolation. His chest constricted with each delay, the thought of his son's pride fading, replaced by a quiet frustration he couldn't control.

He ran a hand over his face, as if trying to erase the worry etched into his skin.

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