vulnerable - Story 166163 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The string quartet’s rendition of "Here Comes the Bride" felt like an unwelcome soundtrack to Leo's internal turmoil. He’d meticulously crafted a facade of composure, but the second he saw her, it fractured. His carefully constructed nonchalance shattered.

His palms were slick with sweat. He gripped his water glass so hard that the stem threatened to snap. He knew he should circulate, mingle, but he found himself rooted to the spot, watching her from across the room.

Each time her eyes flicked in his direction, he averted his own. He felt a blush creep up his neck. He wished he'd stayed home.

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