vulnerable - Story 166330 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was still wearing his chef whites, smeared with sauce and smelling of onions. Daniel stood in the middle of the empty dining room, the review in his trembling hand.

He'd dreamed of this – opening his own restaurant, showcasing his culinary talents. The critic had declared his dishes "uninspired" and his restaurant "pretentious."

He slumped down in a chair, his shoulders slumping. He felt a throbbing ache in his chest. The carefully arranged tables and the starched white tablecloths seemed to mock him. His vision blurred, and he squeezed his eyes shut.

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