vulnerable - Story 166816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat hunched in the uncomfortable waiting room chair. The brochures on anxiety and depression were mocking him. He should have dealt with this years ago, but the constant pressure had been paralyzing. Now, he was coming apart at the seams.

Then, there she was. Emma, the girl who had made his childhood an endless series of humiliations. The sight of her sent a wave of nausea through him.

"John?" Her voice was softer than he remembered. He felt his face flush with shame. He mumbled a greeting, afraid to meet her gaze.

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