vulnerable - Story 166820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank screen of his phone, unable to bring himself to turn it off. The news had been playing on a loop in his head for days. His life was in freefall. He needed to get a grip on himself.

The door opened, and a woman’s silhouette appeared. It was the girl who used to trip him and laugh. It was Olivia. He felt a profound sense of humiliation wash over him.

“Come in, Robert,” she said, and he rose stiffly, his body betraying him. He felt like a child, exposed and defenseless.

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