vulnerable - Story 166706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you grew up in the area?" Liam asked, leaning back in his chair. The casual office chatter felt like a direct threat. He always tried to avoid personal conversations.

"Yeah, I spent my summers at Camp Firefly," Maya replied, her voice filled with a carefree lilt.

His jaw tightened. He wanted to change the subject, to disappear into the mundane task of filing reports. Camp Firefly. His chest felt tight, the air thick and heavy. He felt exposed, stripped bare. He forced a weak smile and nodded. "Oh, that's…nice." He hated this.

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