vulnerable - Story 166707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights in the office hummed, creating a constant, irritating buzz. Michael watched, paralyzed, as Chloe, who had been chatting with a client, turned towards him, a smile on her face.

“You wouldn’t believe the things that happened at Camp Green Meadows,” she said to the client. Then she glanced at Michael. “Did you ever go?”

Michael suddenly felt lightheaded. He couldn't speak. He stared at his hands, watching them tremble slightly. The room narrowed, closing in around him. He squeezed his eyes shut for a moment, wishing the floor would simply 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