vulnerable - Story 166178 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale smell of the office felt suffocating, and I couldn't seem to get enough air. Everything seemed to have been a lie, I thought, as I sat at my desk and looked around at the faces of my coworkers. My friend Jake, who I had admired for his confidence and supposed prowess as a high-powered executive. The truth had emerged over the weekend: he was the janitor.

I got up and went to the bathroom, staring at my reflection. It was the same face, but the familiar features seemed distorted, and not my own. I looked at the mirror and wondered what else I didn't know.

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