vulnerable - Story 166702 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He avoided eye contact, shuffling the papers on his desk. David’s stomach felt like it was doing somersaults. He’d barely slept all night, haunted by the thought of the upcoming team-building exercise. He hated these things.

"Did you ever go to Camp Timber Ridge?" Maria was asking, her voice bright and cheerful. He hated cheerful. He hated team-building exercises.

David choked, his throat suddenly dry. Timber Ridge. He couldn’t even look at her. He busied himself with the stapler, jamming it repeatedly. "Uh, maybe. Long time ago."

He felt the familiar flush creep up his neck. The room swam a little. He wished the floor would open up and swallow him whole.

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