vulnerable - Story 166532 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam stared at the notification on his phone, the blue light reflecting in his wide eyes. It was a retraction notice. His carefully planned future, the one built on the foundation of the prestigious scholarship, was crumbling. He felt a coldness creep into his limbs. His apartment, usually a haven of books and art supplies, felt stark and unwelcoming.

He gripped the worn leather of his favorite armchair, knuckles white. The thought of confronting his parents, the shame of letting them down, paralyzed him. A wave of dizziness washed over him, and he instinctively put a hand to his forehead.

He paced the confines of his small living space, his usual confident stride replaced with a hesitant shuffle. He'd poured his heart and soul into his studies, believing the scholarship was a testament to his dedication. Now, the weight of the error felt unbearable.

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