vulnerable - Story 166379 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt like a labyrinth, confusing and disorienting. She was still reeling from the abrupt change, the unsettling uprooting. She felt disconnected, like a ghost haunting her own life.

She found herself in the master bathroom, staring at the mirrored wall. She reached up and pulled at the decorative moulding. It came away easily, revealing a small, hidden access panel.

She hesitated, her reflection staring back at her, a stranger in a strange place. She opened the panel, the darkness swallowing her gaze.

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