vulnerable - Story 166529 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always held a special place in his heart for the author, August Moon. His stories had inspired Leo. He had found comfort in the way August’s words had articulated feelings he’d struggled to name. Now, the scandal broke: August had stolen his stories, and many others, wholesale. It was a crushing blow. He felt stripped bare.

He was alone in his bedroom, staring at the ceiling. The ceiling had never been interesting, but now it felt the only place he felt safe looking. His pulse hammered in his ears. He wanted to scream. He wanted to smash something. He felt like his heart was breaking.

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