vulnerable - Story 166097 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the house was deafening. After the divorce, Emily had craved noise, any kind of noise. Now, in the house she grew up in, the quiet felt suffocating. It was as if every ticking clock, every creak, was a judgment.

She sat on the sofa, clutching a blanket around her. She watched the dust motes dance in the sunlight streaming through the window, unable to bring herself to do anything,

She felt her face start to burn as the feeling took over her. Her hands trembled. She wanted to scream.

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