vulnerable - Story 166997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh, you’re *that* guy.” Liam winced. The words, uttered by a classmate he barely knew, were like a punch to the gut. His essay, about overcoming the loss of his brother, was now a public spectacle.

He forced a weak smile and tried to brush it off, but the words echoed in his ears. He couldn't shake the sensation that he was being assessed, dissected, analyzed. His composure was gone.

He found himself avoiding the dining hall and library. He started taking a different route to class, just to avoid running into anyone who might have read his essay. He stayed in his dorm room, re-reading the essay, regretting his candor.

The familiar, welcoming space of his dorm now felt like a cage.

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