vulnerable - Story 166195 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school playground was a vibrant tapestry of noise and color, but for David, it was a minefield. Today he had learned that his son's music teacher was Mr. Henderson. The same Mr. Henderson who, in David's memory, had systematically dismantled his confidence in the school band.

He watched his son on the swings, a flash of red hair in a sea of children. The boy's carefree laughter was a stab to the heart. He knew all too well the sting of being singled out, of feeling like you didn't belong.

He started walking towards his son, feeling the weight of the past pressing down on him. Each step felt like a mile.

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