vulnerable - Story 166696 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, this is it, isn’t it?” I muttered to myself, staring at my reflection in the breakroom coffee machine. My eyes were bloodshot, and I looked older than my thirty-two years. I hadn't shaved in two days.

I knew Mark would be better at the job. He had the charisma, the connections. I had just the work ethic.

The pressure of the upcoming interview was a physical weight, pressing down on my chest. I felt a wave of nausea wash over me as I envisioned the panel, their discerning gazes.

I picked up a coffee cup, and the plastic felt like it would break in my grip. I needed something to calm the tremors in my hands.

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