vulnerable - Story 166094 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just put your things in the spare room, honey," her mother had said. But it wasn't a spare room, it was *her* room, the one with the faded butterfly stickers on the wall. They hadn't been touched in years, a constant reminder of the girl she used to be. The memories felt heavy.

David stood in the doorway, staring at the room. His suitcase was at his feet. His hands were stuffed in his pockets. He couldn't speak.

His mother, reading his face, wrapped her arms around him. "We're here for you," she whispered, her voice cracking. He leaned into her embrace, wanting to disappear.

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