vulnerable - Story 166085 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the freshly tilled dirt, where the fence would soon stand. David chewed on his lip, his gaze fixed on the corner of the yard. His young daughter, Lily, skipped ahead, oblivious to his apprehension, her laughter a fragile counterpoint to the impending change.

The fence felt like a boundary he didn’t want. It signified a separation from the community, a division he had worked hard to avoid. He’d always prided himself on the open feel of the neighbourhood. Now, he'd be locked in. He followed Lily, and forced a smile, but it felt hollow.

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