vulnerable - Story 166906 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the notice board, the bold print of the announcement searing itself onto his retinas. John, usually confident, felt a sudden hollowness inside him. The words, “College to Close,” echoed in his ears.

He felt his throat constrict, making it difficult to breathe. He wanted to scream, to lash out at someone, anyone. The weight of the impending changes pressed down on him, making it difficult to stand.

He gripped the edge of the notice board, his knuckles white. The bustling campus suddenly felt hostile. The future, once a clear path, now dissolved into a blurry expanse.

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