vulnerable - Story 166627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The art class had been making self-portraits, and after posting hers, Lily noticed her art teacher, Mrs. Garcia, was now following her. Lily's breath hitched.

She picked apart her work, examining every stroke, every shadow, every imperfection. Now her teacher could *see* the messy way she painted, the way she struggled with the details.

The following day in class was torture. Every time Mrs. Garcia walked past her easel, Lily’s hands trembled. The paints seemed to mock her. The entire lesson she felt a profound uneasiness, like she was being examined under a microscope.

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