vulnerable - Story 166629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her fashion sketches were her pride and joy. She'd been posting them, gaining followers, feeling confident, until she got the notification: Ms. Carter, her design teacher, had requested to follow her.

A strange tightness formed in her chest. She scrolled through her feed, seeing her sketches with a new, critical eye. The vibrant colors suddenly seemed gaudy, the lines too clumsy. Her usual enthusiasm began to falter.

She spent the next few days in a fog of self-doubt. The inspiration she'd felt was replaced by the anxiety of potential judgment. She didn't want to draw anymore.

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