vulnerable - Story 166288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message was brief, a simple friend request from Mark Jenkins. For a moment, Daniel felt nothing, then a coldness spread through him. Mark, the boy who'd relentlessly mocked his stutter, the name that had once haunted his dreams. He took a step back from his desk, needing air, his lungs feeling tight.

He hated how quickly the past could unravel his present. He hated how it could reduce him to the terrified child he once was.

He closed his eyes, fighting the urge to run, to hide. He squeezed his hands into fists, trying to regain control. His success, his confidence. They were all slipping through his fingers.

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