vulnerable - Story 166856 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Learn to Salsa.” The first item on the list. John, stooped over the small, yellowed notepad, felt a knot tighten in his stomach. His father, a man of routine and predictability, had held onto these secret desires. He could barely believe it.

He sat at the kitchen table, the morning light sharp against the worn surface. He ran his hand over the list, the paper thin under his fingertips. He felt the ground shifting beneath him, an unfamiliar sensation. He had never felt this way before.

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