vulnerable - Story 166384 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall buzzed with anticipation. Mark had been excited to share this experience with him. He’d meticulously planned the evening, from the pre-concert dinner to the post-show drinks, wanting everything to be perfect. Now, the perfection felt tainted.

He'd caught a glimpse of his boyfriend, across the crowded foyer, sharing a joke with another man. The other man had the same bracelet. Mark's breath caught in his throat.

He had expected excitement, a shared connection, a sense of belonging. Instead, he felt adrift, like a small boat tossed about on a stormy sea. He suddenly felt a need to leave.

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