vulnerable - Story 166344 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless sun beat down on the dusty roadside sale. David swiped the sweat from his brow, his usual bravado nowhere to be found. Being recently downsized left him feeling like a deflated balloon. Everything felt brittle and breakable. He felt like he had nothing.

His gaze drifted to a table overflowing with toys. He stopped, transfixed. There, amidst a jumble of plastic dinosaurs and broken dolls, was his old teddy bear, Barnaby. One ear was missing, and his fur was matted, but he was unmistakable.

David’s throat closed. He felt like he was back in the nursery, crying, afraid. He had to have him.

He cleared his throat. "How much for the bear?" he croaked, his voice betraying a tremor.

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