vulnerable - Story 166570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He spent the morning meticulously arranging the decorations for his themed murder mystery night. He checked the guest list repeatedly, a nervous tic. He knew the competition was steep: Liam's blowout. He couldn't help but picture the sea of faces, the boisterous laughter.

He adjusted the lighting, making sure it was moody enough. He straightened the tablecloth, each movement deliberate and precise. He felt a creeping sense of dread.

He heard a car pull up outside, and he froze, heart leaping. The doorbell rang, and he took a deep breath, and opened the door, bracing himself for another round of comparison.

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