vulnerable - Story 166749 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam stood amidst the chaos, the wind whipping at his shirt. His usually boisterous laughter had vanished, replaced by a strained silence. His neighbors, chattering and gesturing, approached him with offers of assistance, but he couldn't quite meet their gaze.

He felt a tightness in his throat, a struggle to breathe. The loss, the potential costs, the sheer inconvenience… it was all too much. He felt the sting in his eyes. He wished he could disappear.

He nodded, mumbling a thank you, and quickly turned away, the words catching in his throat.

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