vulnerable - Story 166902 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found out in the student union, the news scrolling across the TV screen usually reserved for sports scores. Michael, normally boisterous, froze mid-laugh, his sandwich halfway to his mouth. The words, “College to Close,” slammed into him.

His appetite vanished. He swallowed hard, a lump forming in his throat. He felt the blood drain from his face. His carefully constructed life, his future aspirations – all seemingly poised on the precipice of ruin. The camaraderie he enjoyed with other students now felt alienating.

He pushed his plate away, suddenly aware of the loud chatter around him, the clatter of dishes, the easy laughter. He wanted to disappear, to find a quiet space where the news couldn't touch him.

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