vulnerable - Story 166703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors chimed open, and Emily practically dove out. She needed air. The constant close proximity to people, the noise, it all felt suffocating. She bumped into a tall man, spilling his coffee.

"Oh, I am so sorry!" she stammered, mortified.

"No worries," the man chuckled, his eyes crinkling at the corners. "Accidents happen. You wouldn't believe the things that happened at Camp Birchwood."

Her breath caught in her throat. Birchwood. The name felt like a sudden, brutal intrusion. Her cheeks burned. She mumbled an apology again and hurried away, her footsteps echoing in the hallway.

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