vulnerable - Story 166815 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering fluorescent lights above buzzed, amplifying the knot of tension in his stomach. He’d rehearsed what he wanted to say a hundred times, but now, his mind was blank. All the progress he’d made seemed to unravel in an instant.

The door opened, and the air whooshed into the room, bringing with it a shock. It was Jessica, the girl who used to delight in making his life a misery. The past suddenly seemed very, very present.

"Please, come in, Thomas," she said, her expression carefully neutral. He could only nod, his voice lost somewhere 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