vulnerable - Story 166027 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had just broken – a devastating loss for the family, a wound that throbbed with raw pain. Mark had been tasked with making arrangements, offering comfort, pretending to be strong when he was anything but. He was exhausted, emotionally drained. He was visiting his brother's home, trying to find a moment of respite in the midst of tragedy.

His niece, Lily, was drawing, lost in her own world. In the corner of each picture, a stooped, hunched figure with a perpetually sad expression made its appearance. Mark stared at the image with a jolt of recognition. It was "Grim," his childhood imaginary companion. The sight of it sent a chill through him.

He couldn't speak, he could barely breathe. The presence of the drawing was a stark reminder of his past and the feelings he had locked away.

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