vulnerable - Story 166992 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always considered himself a private person. Now, his history, his fears, his hopes, laid bare in Times New Roman for all the world to see. A tightness gripped Ben's chest as he stared at the page, a knot forming in his stomach. The essay, about his struggles with dyslexia, felt like a confession.

He’d been so proud of it, once. Now, it felt like a mistake. A small, involuntary shudder ran through him.

He was sitting in the library, surrounded by the usual hubbub, yet he felt entirely alone, exposed. The weight of every passing glance felt like a personal judgment. He felt the blood rush to his face.

He had the sudden, desperate urge to hide, to disappear. He abruptly stood up, knocking over his half-empty coffee cup.

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