vulnerable - Story 166093 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar scent of lavender from the guest room's pillow was a cold reminder of the space she was taking up. Sarah had spent weeks building a life in the city, and now she was back in this room. The walls seemed to close in around her, the floral wallpaper a constant visual assault.

The thin mattress felt wrong, too soft, compared to the firm one she was used to. She stared at the ceiling, unable to sleep.

Her father's snoring drifted up from downstairs. She heard a sigh escape her, a puff of sadness that seemed to evaporate into the air. She pulled the covers higher, a child again, seeking shelter from the darkness.

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