vulnerable - Story 166237 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh my god, did you see?” her sister’s voice, full of poorly disguised glee, echoed in the living room. Leo felt the blood drain from his face. The words felt like physical blows.

His diary. His carefully guarded secrets, now open for public consumption. His heart hammered in his chest, a frantic drumbeat against his ribs. He felt a wave of nausea, like he was going to throw up.

He fled to the bathroom, splashing cold water on his face. The mirror reflected his pale skin, his wide, frightened eyes. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He wanted to scream.

He curled up on the cold tile floor, clutching his stomach, wanting to rewind time.

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