vulnerable - Story 166373 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The realtor’s saccharine smile and the promise of a "fixer-upper" had blinded Sarah. Now, surrounded by peeling wallpaper and creaking floorboards, doubt gnawed at her. She had poured her savings into this, trading security for a dream. Was it a mistake?

She was in the attic, the air thick with dust motes dancing in the weak sunlight. A loose panel in the far corner caught her eye. She pulled at it, her fingers scraping against the rough wood.

It swung open, revealing a small, forgotten room, the walls lined with shelves holding decaying books. A cold shiver ran down her spine. The silence was absolute.

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