vulnerable - Story 166272 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, this is it,” Thomas muttered, staring at the sign that read “Human Resources.” His stomach churned. He was used to the quiet solitude of the IT department, the predictable rhythm of code and debugging.

He shifted from foot to foot, his hands shoved deep into his pockets. He hated meetings, disliked small talk. And now, he was supposed to interact with people all day, coordinating employee training?

He imagined stumbling over words, making a fool of himself in front of the new team. The weight of the world felt heavy on his shoulders. The air conditioning was on full blast, and he felt a shiver crawl up his spine.

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