vulnerable - Story 166982 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the screen blurring slightly. The words, "condo conversion," swam before Leo's eyes. He felt a hollowness in his chest, a deep ache he couldn’t name. He gripped the edge of his desk, the wood digging into his knuckles.

His hands began to sweat. He closed his eyes, the image of his cramped, sun-drenched balcony, the only outdoor space he could call his own, flashing in his mind.

He let out a shaky breath. This place was the only stability he had. The quiet of his evenings, the predictable routine of his life, all suddenly teetered on the precipice of change.

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