vulnerable - Story 166370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He approached the mailbox with a weary gait. He’d barely been sleeping, and the days were blurring together. He opened the door and sorted through the contents: bills, catalogs, and then a brightly coloured card with a generic birthday message. The card had no signature.

He stood there, the card dangling from his fingers. He felt a wave of emptiness wash over him. He hadn’t planned to celebrate anything. He hadn’t expected anyone to remember.

He walked back inside, the card still clutched in his hand. The silence was deafening. He poured himself a drink and sat in the shadows. The walls seemed to be closing in. He felt… small.

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