vulnerable - Story 166318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen, a welcome change from the usual take-out dinners. But the sound of him humming, a low, melodic tune, in a language she didn't recognize, was not. It felt… foreign.

He turned, a smile on his face, but it didn't reach his eyes. His gaze slipped away as he spoke, switching to English. She found herself clutching her stomach, a tightness there that wouldn't relent.

The cheerful atmosphere felt contrived, and she felt like an outsider in her own home.

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