vulnerable - Story 166516 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The team meeting room felt cold, the air thick with anticipation. My heart hammered against my ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the unsettling quiet. I kept my gaze fixed on the table in front of me, tracing the grain of the wood with my fingertip.

Coach Davis's eyes, usually friendly, were unreadable. The words seemed to hang in the air, each one a hammer blow. I felt the tears prick at my eyes, but I blinked them away, refusing to let them fall.

When he was done, I pushed myself to my feet, my legs weak. The faces around me were a blur, their expressions indecipherable. All I could think about was getting out, disappearing.

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