vulnerable - Story 166350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty apartment echoed with silence. The moving boxes, still unpacked, represented a new beginning, a blank slate. But for Evelyn, it only felt like an abyss. She felt like an outsider, a ghost.

Wandering through a yard sale, seeking any distraction, her gaze fell upon a familiar object. A slightly moth-eaten teddy bear, a treasured companion from her early years. The bear was wearing its signature bow, that was slightly askew.

A sudden wave of emotion washed over her.

She picked up the bear and held it close, a silent plea for connection, for belonging.

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