vulnerable - Story 166375 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was trying to get lost in the new house, to escape the nagging, relentless thoughts that pursued him. The move had been abrupt, a desperate attempt to outrun something he couldn’t name. The unfamiliar space felt like a trap. He felt like he was suffocating.

He found himself in the cramped, unfinished basement, kicking at a loose piece of panelling. The wood splintered, revealing a gap behind it. He hesitated, then reached in.

The panel gave way to a small, enclosed room. His stomach twisted. He stepped inside cautiously, the air heavy with an unfamiliar, musty odor.

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