vulnerable - Story 166176 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I just… I don't understand," Leo finally managed to say, his voice barely a whisper. He sat on the park bench, fiddling with a loose thread on his jeans. Beside him, Finn, his best friend, shifted uncomfortably. The late afternoon sun cast long shadows, mirroring the darkness settling inside Leo.

Finn’s carefully constructed façade of being a successful entrepreneur, with his luxury cars and tailored suits, had shattered earlier that day. He’d been working for his father's company. Not as CEO, or even as a manager. As a secretary.

The air seemed thick, hard to breathe. The world was a vast and terrifying place.

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