vulnerable - Story 166199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The annual school carnival. Michael usually loved it, relishing the chaos, the laughter. This year, though, he felt a knot of anxiety tighten in his chest. His son’s sixth-grade teacher, Mr. Riley, was the same Mr. Riley who'd called Michael a 'disappointment' in front of the entire class.

He watched his son play a game, his face lit with joy. Michael’s smile felt forced. The carnival, usually a bright, joyous occasion, felt tainted by the past, by the ghost of a disapproving teacher. The air felt heavy, suffocating.

He wanted to protect his son from that, from any of it.

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