vulnerable - Story 166277 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The transition felt like stepping onto a stage, unprepared and under the harsh glare of the spotlight. I hadn't asked for this, and I wasn't ready. The other people in the legal department seemed so sure of themselves, and I wanted to disappear.

My breath hitched as the head of the department smiled and gestured for me to sit. He asked about my previous experience, my gaze flitted across the immaculate room, and I tried to feign confidence, but I knew the truth was written all over my face.

Everything seemed louder, brighter, more scrutinizing than it should be. The quiet corner of my old department felt like a lifetime ago.

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