vulnerable - Story 166648 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John stared at his reflection in the dark glass of the building, a silhouette against the city lights. He had a family to provide for, and he did not want to fail them. His shoulders slumped, he felt the weight of responsibility pressing down on him.

He had always been a man of routine, someone who liked to plan ahead. This news threw everything into chaos. His carefully constructed future, the one he had meticulously crafted, now seemed uncertain.

He pulled his phone out. He stared at the contacts, and realized he didn't have anyone to call. He was on his own. He was alone.

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