vulnerable - Story 166196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mom, can we talk about this?" Chloe asked, her voice barely a whisper. The school's yearly yearbook. Chloe looked at her mom, her eyes wide, and clutching the yearbook like it was a shield. The teacher for Chloe's class was, of course, the same one from her childhood.

Her mother, her own mom, had been the very best teacher. Always supportive, always encouraging. To have this teacher, whom she secretly feared, now teaching her daughter was a threat.

"Of course, honey," her mother answered, her voice trembling. "What is it?" Her hands, always steady, were now clenching and unclenching.

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