vulnerable - Story 166146 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Where is he?” Leo asked, his voice strained. His mentor, Mr. Harrison, the head chef, was always there, a constant presence. Now, just a notice: "Family matters. Leaving immediately."

Leo felt a tightness in his chest. The kitchen, once a place of controlled chaos, now felt like a battlefield. He felt the tremor in his hands as he picked up a knife.

He barked orders at his staff, his voice sharp and brittle. It was his job now to lead. He felt the pressure. The familiar smells of the kitchen, normally a comfort, now felt like a mocking reminder of what he had lost.

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