vulnerable - Story 166630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d been posting about his political views, and got followed by Mr. Evans, his debate coach. Alex felt a coldness spread through him.

He felt like his thoughts were being assessed and judged. He had to be careful with his words, his tone, his arguments. His freedom of expression felt… compromised.

During the next debate, he felt a knot in his stomach. He stumbled over his words. The competitive spirit that usually fueled him had evaporated, replaced by a nervous self-consciousness. He lost, and couldn’t shake the feeling it was because he was too cautious.

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