vulnerable - Story 166228 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The box was heavy with the weight of unsaid words. Ben found it tucked away in the back of his father's closet. He hadn’t known what to expect, but the sight of the contents instantly brought on a wave of unexpected sensation.

He opened the first folder. "Ben's Creative Writings." Inside were short stories, poems, and drawings, all from his childhood. He recalled the relentless criticism he had received from his peers, the feeling of not being good enough.

He felt the familiar sting behind his eyes. He slowly closed the folder and put it back in the box, not knowing where to begin.

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