vulnerable - Story 166728 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the garage hung thick with the smell of gasoline and forgotten projects. Michael, attempting to organize his father's workshop, tripped over a box. Inside, amongst rusty tools and spare parts, was a letter. The recipient was his father's boss.

Michael read the words carefully. The letter stated his father's intention to leave his job. The reasons given were vague, but it was clear that his father was dissatisfied. Michael felt a chill run through him. His own job had become a source of great stress. He felt exposed, as if everything was about to unravel.

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