vulnerable - Story 166015 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the car was deafening. Her grandmother had just told her, in halting English, that she was converting. The car felt too small, too enclosed. The rhythmic swish of the windshield wipers was the only sound.

She stared out the window, watching the blur of passing trees. Her jaw ached from clenching her teeth. The knot in her stomach tightened with each mile. She wanted to scream, to lash out, but she kept her mouth shut.

They pulled up to the house. She grabbed her bag and fled, unable to meet her grandmother’s gaze. She ran inside, into her room, and slammed the door. The sound echoed in the empty house, a declaration of hurt.

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