vulnerable - Story 166276 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun blazed through the windows of the new department, a stark contrast to the dim, windowless space he’d just left. Michael, fresh from the warehouse, blinked, his eyes struggling to adjust. He felt exposed, stripped bare.

He missed the familiar routine, the physical labor that had kept him grounded. Now he was in an office, expected to perform tasks he’d never even considered.

He couldn't shake the feeling that everyone was watching, judging his every move. His throat felt tight. He had to fake enthusiasm, and that was draining.

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