vulnerable - Story 166279 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, a luxury he wasn't accustomed to, swirled around him as he entered the executive suites. John, from the mailroom, felt a wave of dizziness hit him. The polished mahogany desks and the hushed tones of the staff felt both intimidating and unattainable.

His hands fidgeted with the worn strap of his messenger bag. He wondered if his old uniform was better, if it would have provided more protection.

He felt out of place, an intruder in a world he didn't understand. Each glance in his direction felt like a measurement. He wished he could just disappear back to his old routine.

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