vulnerable - Story 166295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first thing David did was check the time. He'd been so careful. He’d rushed home from work, barely making it. He felt like he'd been holding his breath for hours, all in the anticipation of the surprise.

The text was short, blunt, and crushing. "Never mind. Something came up." He crumpled the notification in his hand. He hadn't told anyone how much this meant to him, how much he looked forward to the casual social interaction. Now, the weight of disappointment descended on him, heavier than he had anticipated.

He wandered through the house, his usual lively step now replaced with a slow, aimless shuffle. The silence of the house felt like a physical presence. He went and sat at the kitchen table, staring blankly at nothing.

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