vulnerable - Story 166361 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The late afternoon sun cast long shadows across the overgrown lawn as Amelia retrieved the mail. Her fingers trembled slightly as she sorted through the bills and junk, then she saw it: a single, plain white envelope, addressed simply "To Amelia." Her heart skipped a beat, a prickling sensation creeping up her neck. She hadn't expected anything.

Inside, a card with a generic floral design, completely unsigned. A handwritten message was inside. "Thinking of you. Happy Birthday." Amelia’s breath hitched. She clutched the card to her chest, her knuckles turning white. The words felt like a secret whisper, and she wasn't sure if she wanted to know who had sent it.

She retreated inside, locked the deadbolt, and leaned against the door. Every creak of the old house sounded like an intrusion. She hadn't told anyone it was her birthday. A tear slid down her cheek.

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