vulnerable - Story 166596 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank screen, the cursor blinking accusingly. The rejection had hollowed him out. He thought he was good, had been told he was good. Now, his confidence was shattered, broken into a million tiny pieces.

He pushed his chair back from his desk, the wheels squeaking in protest. He went to the kitchen and made a cup of tea, but the familiar ritual offered no solace. His hands trembled as he held the mug.

The tea tasted like ash. He wandered from room to room, touching the familiar objects of his life, searching for something to hold on to. The emptiness inside him was vast and desolate.

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