vulnerable - Story 166998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The university’s announcement flashed on his phone screen as he was waiting in line at the grocery store. It was his essay. He felt his face flush. The essay detailed his experience as a first-generation college student, and the struggles it entailed.

He felt the eyes of the other shoppers on him, even though they weren't.

He quickly closed the app and put his phone away. The mundane reality of his errand felt suddenly overwhelming. He couldn’t shake the feeling of being judged by strangers. He abandoned his shopping cart and walked out of the store. He headed for the relative privacy of the park.

He sat on a bench, staring at the ground, a familiar feeling of disquiet welling up inside him.

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