vulnerable - Story 166876 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The exhibition was buzzing with chatter, but all Liam could hear was the frantic pounding of his own heart. His paintings, vibrant, chaotic expressions of his inner turmoil, were hung in a prominent position.

He’d kept them locked away, protected. He wasn't ready to share the shadows, the demons. Now the secrets were out. It felt like walking through a blizzard without a coat.

He found himself backing away, moving further and further into a corner. He wanted to scream. He wanted to disappear. He felt very light and unsteady on his feet, as though he might simply dissolve into the air.

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