vulnerable - Story 166786 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, the listing a blinking portal to his past. His jaw ached, clenched tight. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous habit he'd adopted years ago. The virtual tour felt like an interrogation.

The listing highlighted the “original hardwood floors,” floors he’d scuffed with his clumsy teenage feet. The new owners, he imagined, wouldn’t know the secrets whispered in that wood. A wave of something akin to jealousy washed over him.

He felt a pull toward something, a longing for something, he couldn’t name. He felt a terrible, unsettling emptiness, a hollowness in the pit of his stomach. He stood up, suddenly restless, needing to pace.

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