vulnerable - Story 166900 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The score, a disappointing D, felt heavy, like a lead weight. James had always been a quick learner, and the unexpected failure shook his foundation. He replayed the exam in his mind, desperate to find where he went wrong.

He avoided the cafeteria, the thought of casual conversations impossible. He just wanted to be alone. He felt a deep sense of inadequacy, a fear that he wasn't as smart as he had believed.

He went to the basketball court, but he couldn't concentrate. He shot a few baskets, his movements clumsy. The ball clanked against the rim and fell back to the floor. The game that he usually used to clear his head was now beyond his reach.

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