vulnerable - Story 166744 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight, once a welcome warmth, now felt harsh, exposing. David’s stomach twisted as he looked at the wreckage. He felt a burning in his cheeks. The insurance adjuster would come, the tree removal service, the repairs. He’d have to explain everything, all the details.

He’d avoided contact with his neighbors for months, keeping to himself. Now, they'd be watching, judging. He rubbed his arms, fighting a sudden urge to flee. He couldn't face them.

He swallowed hard. He felt as if the entire world could see right through him. He slowly walked back inside his home, wanting to disappear.

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