vulnerable - Story 166324 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just… just breathe," Leo whispered, clutching the crumpled napkin in his hand. The words of the critic, delivered with such precision, still rang in his ears.

He’d believed in his food. He’d believed in his vision. But the critic hadn’t, and now, he doubted his own beliefs. The restaurant was nearly empty.

He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it a mess. His legs felt shaky. He closed his eyes, imagining the critic's face, the smug satisfaction radiating from his words. The room spun. He felt a deep loneliness wash over him, a feeling of being completely adrift.

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