vulnerable - Story 166319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"What was that?" Ben asked, staring at the television. Chloe had been engrossed in a documentary on his computer, but she started watching it, and the sound of the Mandarin speaker was new to him.

She avoided his gaze, her cheeks flushed. "Oh, nothing," she mumbled, quickly switching the channel. He didn't know why, but a wave of heat rose inside him, a burning sensation that began in his stomach.

Everything felt off-kilter, and he couldn't explain why. He felt like he was teetering on a precipice.

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