vulnerable - Story 166314 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A cold sweat broke out on Elena's brow as she heard a familiar voice from the back garden. It was Marco, speaking in rapid, lilting Italian to the dog. He'd never spoken Italian to her before, but now he was doing it with their dog.

She cautiously opened the back door, and he turned, startled. His expression flickered, and he quickly switched to English. She forced a smile, but her heart was hammering against her ribs.

His eagerness was gone as he started speaking English. Her insides felt like they were twisting into knots. She didn't like the new divide between them.

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