vulnerable - Story 166020 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in her chest was crushing. Her grandson’s announcement had fallen over her like a heavy blanket, suffocating her. The living room, filled with family photos, felt too small, the walls closing in.

She sat in her favorite armchair, her hands clasped tightly in her lap. She listened to the happy chatter around her, the words a meaningless drone. She felt detached, a shadow in her own home.

She closed her eyes, trying to conjure the feeling of peace she used to experience. She felt the tears welling up. The familiar scent of her own perfume suddenly felt like a lie, a betrayal of everything she had held dear.

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