vulnerable - Story 166669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence felt thick and heavy. He hadn't wanted to come in to work today, but he had felt he had no choice. He felt the familiar constriction in his chest, a feeling he knew all too well. He hated this.

“Anything?” Maria, his coworker, asked, her voice tinged with a hint of impatience. He shook his head, unable to meet her gaze. He felt exposed, stripped down. He just wished everyone would leave him alone.

He stared at the floor, the cold metal reflecting the emergency light. He felt the familiar sting of tears behind his eyes. He hated the way his body was betraying him.

He cleared his throat, trying to regain some semblance of composure. He was exhausted. He was at the end of his rope. All he wanted was to be invisible.

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