vulnerable - Story 166818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt like an eternity. Each floor felt like a step further into the abyss. He clutched his hands until his nails left marks in his palms. His marriage was on the rocks, and he needed help.

The therapist's office. He took a deep breath. The door opened and there was the face of the boy who ruined his teenage years. It was Peter.

"Come in, Alan," he said, and gestured towards a leather armchair. Alan found himself unable to move.

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