vulnerable - Story 166698 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning meeting stretched into an eternity. He fidgeted, avoided eye contact, and made a point of staring intently at his notepad, even when nothing was written on it. He could feel the tension radiating off of Mark.

Every word spoken by the boss seemed to be a subtle jab. His palms were sweating. He could feel the blood rush to his face.

The room grew hot, and he felt the familiar prickle of tears behind his eyes. He swallowed hard, forcing himself to breathe deeply. This was humiliating.

He excused himself, the room spinning. He needed to get away, to disappear.

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