vulnerable - Story 166760 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email on his laptop screen, the words of the apology letter glowing against the dark background. *I'm sorry for everything.* The words from his older brother, typed after years of silence, echoed inside him. He felt the familiar sting in his eyes. He sat in the dark room, and the silence surrounded him, pressing in.

He clicked away from the email, then opened it again. He paced his apartment, the screen following him like a shadow. He didn't know what to do. His hands shook as he reached for the phone. He needed to talk to someone, anyone. The weight of the past was crushing him.

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