vulnerable - Story 166626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d been feeling low lately, and he'd posted a series of sad quotes to his story. The next morning, his history teacher, Mr. Bell, had sent him a DM: "Hope you're doing okay." Michael felt his face go hot.

He wanted to scream, to run. Mr. Bell was a good teacher, but now he felt... watched. The casual way he’d been treating his social media, suddenly seemed reckless.

He deleted the quotes, then deleted the app itself. He spent the entire day hiding in the library, avoiding any situation where he might have to interact.

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