vulnerable - Story 166650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar click of the door closing seemed unusually loud. Mark sat down at his desk, but his hands were trembling so badly he couldn’t even grasp his pen. The office felt stifling. He peeled off his tie, loosening it around his neck.

He felt the hot flush rise in his cheeks. He could hear his heart pounding in his ears. He was completely unprepared. He thought of his parents, his home, his life. They were all dependent on him.

He closed his eyes for a moment, wishing he could disappear. He was trapped in a situation he felt utterly incapable of handling. He took a deep breath, and opened his eyes to a world that had suddenly become foreign.

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