vulnerable - Story 166497 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt enormous, cold. Mark sat in the back row, trying to become invisible. The opposing lawyer's words, slick and confident, sliced through him. His voice cracked as he was cross-examined. His automatic pet feeder, his livelihood, his identity, was being dissected and discarded.

He gripped his hands so tightly his nails bit into his palms. He hated the way his stomach churned, the incessant buzzing in his ears. He focused on a crack in the ceiling, a tiny imperfection in the otherwise perfect room, searching for something to ground him.

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