vulnerable - Story 166312 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the tempest inside Amelia. Liam had been acting strangely for weeks. He’d been spending late nights in his home office, supposedly working. Tonight, however, the door was cracked, and she heard him.

*“Ich liebe dich, meine Sonne,”* he was murmuring, the German hesitant but sincere.

She froze. Her hand instinctively flew to her chest, where a pressure had taken hold. A chill snaked up her spine, and she felt a sudden, inexplicable need to retreat. She felt the sudden urge to hide away. She swallowed hard, but the lump in her throat remained.

She didn't know how to handle the sudden information, and she felt like she didn't know him at all.

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