vulnerable - Story 166588 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio blared from the car stereo. Daniel was driving, lost in thought. Suddenly, the familiar opening chords of "Chasing Shadows" burst through the speakers. It was his song, now a chart-topping hit for someone else. He had signed it away, needed the money. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him. His hands tightened on the steering wheel, his knuckles white. He blinked rapidly, trying to clear the sudden fog that had descended.

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