vulnerable - Story 166267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection letter crackled in his hand. Alex crumpled it into a ball and threw it in the trash, then immediately retrieved it. He smoothed the paper out, reading the carefully worded paragraphs again. No. No, no, no. He couldn’t believe it. He’d dreamt of this for years, dedicated his life to this.

He wandered into the bathroom, staring at his reflection. His face was pale, his eyes red-rimmed. He splashed cold water on his face, but it didn't help. He had never felt this small.

He heard his mom calling him for dinner. He had no appetite. He ignored her and went back to his room.

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