vulnerable - Story 166465 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped porcelain doll sat on the mantelpiece, its painted eyes forever fixed in a vacant stare. The voice of her brother, sharp and accusatory, filled her ears. “We have to sell it, Sarah.”

She tried to swallow, but her throat constricted, making it difficult to breathe. The air in the room felt thick, like a heavy blanket. The doll was a legacy.

She remembered her own mother putting her to bed and reading her fairytales. She remembered her own little hands clutching it for comfort. The thought of it gone, of its painted face staring down at strangers, twisted inside her.

She looked at her brother and her eyes welled up.

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