vulnerable - Story 166313 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David watched Chloe from across the restaurant. She was laughing, effortlessly weaving through a conversation with the waiter in fluent Mandarin. He knew she'd always been interested in the language, but… this was new.

He felt a prickle of unease, a tightening in his chest. His hands clenched into fists beneath the table. The lively chatter in the restaurant suddenly seemed distant, muffled. A flush crept up his neck.

The conversation seemed to exclude him, even though he knew there was nothing wrong. It just made him feel uncertain.

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