vulnerable - Story 166365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Ugh, another one," Sarah thought, sighing as she opened the mailbox. She’d been dreading this day. Mostly bills, some junk mail, then a card. The cover depicted a picture of kittens. Inside, "Happy Birthday." No name.

She felt a hot flush creep up her neck. She dropped the mail on the counter. The phone rang, startling her. Her hands trembled as she reached for it.

The familiar voice on the other end, her mother, asked if she was doing okay. Sarah answered, "Fine," but her voice cracked. She wanted to tell her mother everything, but she couldn’t find the words. The four walls seemed to be closing in around her.

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