vulnerable - Story 166694 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found himself wandering the halls, avoiding eye contact with anyone. He had skipped lunch, the thought of food turning his stomach. He was consumed by an all-encompassing dread.

The promotion was the culmination of years of hard work, the final step towards achieving what he thought he deserved. He had poured his heart and soul into this, sacrificing any semblance of a personal life.

His shoulders slumped as he reached his car, the keys feeling heavy in his hand. He stared at the city skyline, the lights of the buildings a distant, unattainable glow. He just wanted it to be over.

He would have to face her in the morning. He thought he could almost feel her pity.

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