vulnerable - Story 166657 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white walls of the waiting room closed in around him. Liam ran a hand through his already disheveled hair. He had spent the last week composing the message, a tentative expression of his feelings toward a close friend. Now, it had gone to his ex-boyfriend, the man he was desperately trying to avoid.

He felt the color drain from his face. His pulse quickened. The thought of confronting the past, the painful memories, was nearly unbearable. He wanted to scream. He wanted to run.

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