vulnerable - Story 166200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The kindergarten classroom. It was smaller than he remembered, the walls decorated with bright construction paper and childish artwork. Sarah swallowed, trying to force away the sudden tightness in her chest. Mrs. Miller, his daughter’s teacher, was the same teacher who'd shamed him for his lack of reading skills.

He looked at his daughter, her face open and trusting, and a fierce protectiveness welled up within him. He wanted to shield her from the judgment, the humiliation, the feeling of being less than.

He watched her and fought the rising tide of memories.

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