vulnerable - Story 166359 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She moved slowly through the attic, her footsteps barely audible on the dusty floorboards. The air was thick and stagnant, and a faint odor of decay hung in the air. She found a box containing old toys, dolls with missing eyes and broken limbs.

The toys felt heavy, as did the silence. She remembered the house she had grown up in, and the happy memories contained within. She felt as though someone was watching her.

She carefully closed the box, suddenly overwhelmed. She turned around and made her way back down the stairs.

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