vulnerable - Story 166247 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived in a hurried phone call on a rainy Tuesday morning. "There's been a mix-up, Mrs. Peterson. Your MRI results… they’re not yours." Marie’s stomach lurched. The fear she’d been living with, the headaches, the worry about a brain tumor, the preparations for her own demise… all gone. Not real. She felt stunned.

She sat on the edge of her bed, the sheets twisted around her legs. The rain hammered against the windows, a relentless rhythm. She felt a lightness in her head, a strange disassociation from her own body.

She ran a hand through her hair, her fingers tangling in the strands. The future, once a shadowy path, was now completely out of focus.

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