vulnerable - Story 166084 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound of the post hole digger echoed through the quiet afternoon. Sarah pressed her hands against her ears, trying to block out the relentless thud. Each vibration seemed to resonate inside her bones. She couldn't focus on her book, the words swimming before her eyes.

Her husband was away on business again. The empty house felt vast and hollow. She kept the doors locked, the lights on. The thought of being completely alone, with no defense, was a cold, hard stone in her stomach.

She got up and went to the window, watching the workers measure and dig.

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