vulnerable - Story 166348 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The echo of the argument still rang in her ears, a constant reminder of the fight. She felt small and insignificant, a leaf caught in a hurricane. Everything was shaky.

As she slowly walked along the yard sale, avoiding everyone, her gaze landed on an unassuming table. There, amidst a collection of discarded toys, sat a familiar friend. Brown, with one button missing, and a patch on his leg.

She recognized him immediately. The bear was the same one she had as a child.

She reached out, hesitantly. Her fingers touched the soft fur, and she felt a small crack in the wall she'd built around herself.

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