vulnerable - Story 166226 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the boxes stacked in his childhood bedroom, the words "Sean's Treasures" scrawled across the top. The label felt like a betrayal. His mother, always so private, so reserved, had kept everything. Now, everything felt different.

He picked up a book report on *Moby Dick*, his handwriting still clumsy and immature. A knot formed in his stomach. The memory of the project's late submission, the teacher's disapproving frown, rose up. His cheeks burned.

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he still did. The walls of his childhood bedroom seemed to shrink around him.

He was suddenly overwhelmed by the past.

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