vulnerable - Story 166667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small space felt suffocating. He’d never admitted this before, but he was afraid of being alone with other people. He felt a bead of sweat trickle down his temple. The air grew stale, and he felt a wave of nausea rise.

“So… what do you think we should do?” Olivia asked, her voice sounding strangely distant. He focused on her face, trying to appear normal. He just wanted this feeling to go away.

He shrugged, trying to sound casual. “Well, I guess we wait.” His voice cracked slightly. He hated how weak he sounded. He wanted to scream, to break something, to escape.

He rubbed his arms, suddenly cold. He was starting to feel exposed and unsure of himself. He just wanted to be somewhere else. He had to keep it together.

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