vulnerable - Story 166898 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The feedback felt like a personal affront. It was a rejection, a judgment. David couldn't shake the professor’s comments. He’d invested so much of his time and energy into the project, and this was the payoff.

He retreated to his room and switched off his phone. The notifications, the texts, they all felt like a barrage of potential judgements. He locked the door and sat with his back against it. He wanted to be invisible.

He pulled the covers over his head and stayed in the dark for hours. The familiar scent of his room offered no solace. The silence felt oppressive.

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