vulnerable - Story 166090 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old dog, Buster, whined at the back door, scratching at the glass. John sighed, rubbing his forehead. The fence would separate Buster from his best friend, the golden retriever next door. He knew his dog would be unhappy.

He looked at the blueprints, spread across the kitchen table. He felt responsible, even though the decision wasn’t his. It was a community vote. He didn’t want to be the odd one out. He felt isolated in his reluctance. He gave in.

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