vulnerable - Story 166628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sam had been sharing his photography online, mostly landscapes and street scenes. He was pleased to be getting positive feedback when he realized Mr. Lee, the head of the yearbook committee, was now following him.

He felt a sudden, sharp pressure. Suddenly, everything felt loaded. He had to be perfect, even on vacation. Every photo, every post, every like or comment felt like an audition.

The pressure mounted. He felt a weird, stifling sense of constraint when he was out with his camera. He missed the freedom he used to feel. The joy of taking photos had vanished, replaced by an anxious need to impress.

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