vulnerable - Story 166081 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tremor in Amelia’s hands was almost imperceptible as she signed the petition. Mrs. Henderson’s clipboard pressed against her chest, a physical weight mirroring the burden in her heart. Sunlight glinted off the manicured lawns of their cul-de-sac, each perfect patch of green a testament to the lives she’d lost. She couldn’t bring herself to meet Mrs. Henderson's eyes, focusing instead on the script, the neat print of the names already listed. Her little dog, Pip, whimpered at her feet, sensing her unease.

“It’ll really help with the… safety,” Mrs. Henderson said, her voice bright and cheery. Amelia nodded, the word echoing inside her head.

The fence would close off the open space that used to exist. The endless field where her son played. Where he was happy. Now, she felt trapped by invisible walls.

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