vulnerable - Story 166622 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d just written the essay about his struggles with anxiety, pouring out all of his raw feelings onto the page. The next day, he saw it. Mr. Davies, his English teacher, had liked the post. Mark felt a jolt.

He felt pinned under a spotlight he couldn't escape. His chest felt tight, and his palms were slick. He thought about deleting the whole account. What had he been thinking, sharing that with the world?

At lunch, he avoided eye contact with Mr. Davies in the cafeteria. He ate in silence, picking at his food. Every conversation around him felt amplified, every laugh felt pointed.

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