vulnerable - Story 166368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was already dipping behind the trees, casting long shadows across the overgrown garden. Michael felt the chill in the air as he collected the mail. He didn't expect anything special. Then, he found it. A card, simply addressed to him, with a pre-printed "Happy Birthday" greeting. No name.

He stood there for a moment, the silence of the evening amplifying his thoughts. He felt the weight of his isolation. He hadn’t spoken to anyone in days. A knot formed in his stomach.

He went back inside, the empty rooms amplifying his solitude. He put on a record, hoping the music would help. But all it did was make him feel more conspicuous in his loneliness.

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