vulnerable - Story 166586 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d come to the open mic night to support a friend, but as the next act took the stage, his heart slammed against his ribs. It was his song, "Silent Scream." The notes reverberated through the small room, sung with a confidence he lacked. He found himself unable to breathe, his fingers clenching and unclenching. He wanted to be invisible. He wanted to run. Instead, he just sat there, rigid, as the performance continued.

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