vulnerable - Story 166407 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty smell of the basement was suffocating. Noah, flashlight beam dancing erratically, stepped carefully down the rickety stairs. He felt… out of sorts. Everything was unfamiliar. His sister, Olivia, was upstairs, probably already measuring rooms and making plans.

Cobwebs brushed against his face, a sudden, unpleasant sensation. He flinched, instinctively pulling away. The darkness seemed to press in on him, amplifying every creak and groan of the house. He felt the blood draining from his face.

He shone the light on a pile of dusty boxes. He didn't want to be down here. He didn’t want to be alone with his thoughts. He took a deep breath, trying to compose himself.

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