vulnerable - Story 166624 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band had a big gig coming up, and Liam had been practicing relentlessly. He'd posted a video of himself playing the guitar, hoping for some validation. His music teacher, Mr. Olsen, had followed him.

Liam’s fingers froze on his phone screen. He knew Mr. Olsen, understood how he graded and saw the world. Suddenly, his mistakes, his imperfections, the small things he worried about, felt like they were on display for scrutiny. He felt exposed, stripped bare.

He spent the rest of the day avoiding Mr. Olsen, feeling a strange tightness in his chest whenever he saw him in the hallways. The music felt different now, too. Less joyful, more… precarious.

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