vulnerable - Story 166994 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email had arrived at the worst possible time: a Friday night, right before a planned dinner with friends. David wanted to celebrate his recent acceptance, but now his stomach was churning with dread. The essay, detailing his struggles with his identity as a transgender man, was now public.

He barely touched his dinner. The conversation around him felt distant, muffled. He kept replaying the essay in his mind, cringing at every sentence, every vulnerable detail. He felt as if a spotlight was trained on him.

He excused himself early, muttering something about a headache. The moment he was alone in his apartment, he collapsed onto the couch, the carefully constructed facade of confidence crumbling. Tears streamed down his face, leaving salty trails on his cheeks.

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