vulnerable - Story 166664 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The claustrophobia hit him like a physical blow. The air felt heavy, stale. He hadn't been able to talk to anyone about the things that haunted him. He didn’t want his friend to see how troubled he was. His heart pounded against his ribs, a frantic rhythm against the silence.

He leaned against the wall, trying to control the ragged gasps that escaped his lips. The scent of stale coffee and someone’s perfume hung in the air, a combination that made him slightly sick. He could feel the eyes of Sarah, his coworker, on him.

“You alright, Ben?” Her question was gentle, but her words felt like a spotlight on his weakness. He hated that she could see the way he was.

He cleared his throat. "Yeah," he managed, his voice raspy. He swallowed hard, trying to keep the tears at bay. He squeezed his eyes shut for a moment. He just wanted to be home.

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