vulnerable - Story 166305 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, yeah, I'm at 85k now," Mark heard from across the cafeteria. He almost choked on his sandwich. It was Ryan. Ryan was talking about his salary again. The new intern. Mark clenched his jaw.

He tried to focus on his tuna salad, but the taste was suddenly bland, tasteless. He felt a deep thrumming in his chest, a sort of… hollow sensation. Like a building that had lost its foundations. He’d built his career, brick by brick, over the course of a decade. And Ryan… Ryan had waltzed in and was already ahead.

He took a slow, deliberate sip of water, trying to compose himself. He couldn’t let this show. He forced a smile as Ryan looked his way. He raised his hand in a small, tight wave. “Good for you, man,” he managed to croak.

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