vulnerable - Story 166428 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The metallic scent of the invitation's ink made Michael's stomach churn. He’d remade himself, shedding the old skin of insecurity. The weight of his past felt heavy, a burden he'd carried for so long, he’d begun to think it was a part of him.

He felt the familiar tightening in his chest. The thought of facing his old classmates, of having to explain, of having to justify, was unbearable. He paced his apartment, a restless energy coursing through him.

He pictured the sneers, the backhanded compliments, the subtle digs he’d endured. He stopped pacing and ran his hand through his short-cropped hair, a gesture that did nothing to soothe his agitation. He couldn't go. He just couldn't.

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