vulnerable - Story 166948 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd been searching for a pen, and instead, found the meticulously typed document hidden away in the files on his work computer. He recognized the title immediately: "My Life with Eleanor." His stomach dropped.

The narrative portrayed his faults, his failings, his subtle betrayals, all painted in the light of her perspective. His anger, his exhaustion, his moments of doubt, all documented with a clinical precision.

He felt a sudden flush of heat creep up his neck. He wanted to delete the file, to pretend he’d never seen it, but he knew he couldn't. His fingers trembled as he clicked the print button. He felt exposed, stripped bare, left to face his own reflection.

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