vulnerable - Story 166378 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new house was supposed to be a refuge, a sanctuary. But the grand rooms and high ceilings only amplified her sense of displacement. Every creak of the floorboards, every rustle of leaves outside the window, sent a jolt of alarm through her. It was too quiet.

While exploring the dining room, she ran her hand along the wainscoting. A section felt different, cooler to the touch. She pressed. A hidden door clicked open.

She peered into the darkness, a tremor running through her. The air was still and heavy, carrying the faint scent of decay. She took a step back, her breath catching in her throat.

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