vulnerable - Story 166385 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment was filled with the aroma of freshly baked bread, a scent that usually soothed Leo. Tonight, it did the opposite. He had prepared the meal, attempting to create a welcoming atmosphere. He felt foolish now.

The knock on the door was hesitant. His hand remained frozen on the knob. He took a deep breath. She smiled at him, but her eyes held a similar lost quality. The woman was confused. He recognized the woman.

A wave of nausea churned in his stomach. The world seemed to tilt. The carefully constructed reality he’d built over the past few months crumbled into dust.

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