vulnerable - Story 166364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind whipped around Leo as he checked the mail. He gripped the handle of his mailbox, feeling the cold seep into his bones. A folded, cream-colored card, tucked between a flyer and a parking ticket, called his attention. "Happy Birthday."

He flipped the card over, searching for a name, a clue, anything. Nothing. His pulse quickened. He hadn't seen anyone in weeks. The only sounds in his life were the ones he made himself.

The card sat in his hand, a tangible reminder of his solitude. He tucked it into his jacket pocket. He suddenly wanted to run, to escape the confines of his small apartment, but he didn't know where to go.

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