vulnerable - Story 166410 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering candlelight cast dancing shadows on the walls of the dining room. I sat across from my brother, Daniel, the inherited china gleaming in the dim light. I could barely manage a bite of my dinner. The house felt like it was closing in, breathing down on us.

I picked at my food, unable to meet his gaze. The silence, punctuated only by the crackle of the fire, felt oppressive. I felt a chill spreading through my chest. The memories of our grandmother filled the room.

My brother spoke, his voice gentle. I could barely respond. He reached out to me, a gesture of comfort. I flinched slightly, my whole frame rigid.

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