vulnerable - Story 166136 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the words blurring before his eyes. The words felt like a punch to the gut. This was it. Everything he'd strived for, the scholarship, the recognition, could be gone in an instant.

He dropped his phone, the screen cracking under the impact. He felt a desperate urge to run, to flee from the situation. He couldn’t. He was trapped.

His breath came in short, shallow gasps. The room swayed slightly. He felt utterly and completely exposed. The shame was almost overwhelming.

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