vulnerable - Story 166418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the shelter was thick with the scent of stale coffee and unspoken sorrows. Maya, exhausted and defeated, huddled in a corner, clutching the worn teddy bear she had since she was a little girl. She had lost everything.

As she was searching for a spot to sit, she found the wallet, abandoned on a table. She hesitantly opened it. She saw all the cash inside and was frozen in place. Her fingers trembled.

The fear of being caught warred with a dizzying sense of possibility. The thought of a warm bed, of a decent meal, suddenly seemed within reach. She bit her lip, her eyes darting around the room, making sure no one was watching.

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