vulnerable - Story 166894 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived like a punch to the gut. A C+? Liam reread the words, his eyes blurring. He'd been so sure he’d aced the exam. He'd felt prepared, confident. Now, that assurance dissolved into a puddle of self-doubt.

He slumped in his chair, the weight of the rejection pressing down on him. The world seemed to tilt slightly. He couldn't shake the image of his professor, whose words were now echoing in his mind. He’d tried so hard to please him.

He canceled his plans to see his friends. The idea of small talk, of pretending everything was okay, felt impossible. He pulled a blanket over his head, seeking refuge in the darkness, and the world outside disappeared.

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