vulnerable - Story 166599 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt the letter crumple in his grip as the world around him went blurry. The rejection felt like a betrayal. They had led him on, given him hope, and then crushed it.

He walked aimlessly, the bustling city suddenly a hostile landscape. The sun beat down, turning the sidewalks to a furnace. He felt a deep, piercing pain in his chest, a wound that seemed impossible to heal.

He wanted to scream, to rage, to tear something apart. Instead, he just kept walking, the rhythmic thud of his feet on the pavement the only sound in his head.

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