vulnerable - Story 166705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, highlighting the dust motes dancing in the air. John felt a cold sweat prickling his skin. Across the room, Susan was laughing, recounting a story about a particularly disastrous canoe trip.

"…and then the counselor, Mr. Henderson, just started screaming!" she finished, her eyes sparkling.

"Mr. Henderson?" John croaked, his voice barely audible.

"Yeah, you know, from Camp Willow Creek? You wouldn't have known him, I imagine." The casual dismissiveness stung. He fought to remain composed, but the world tilted slightly. He quickly looked away and buried himself in his computer.

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