vulnerable - Story 166473 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang, a sharp, unwelcome intrusion. Maya flinched, her heart leaping into her throat. She hadn’t expected anyone. Not yet. She peeked through the peephole. A delivery person, holding a package. For "Ms. Eleanor Vance," the previous resident. Her breath hitched.

She stood frozen, her hand hovering over the lock. The delivery person knocked again, a rhythmic beat against the wood. Her throat constricted. The apartment felt like a pressure cooker, the air thick and heavy. She considered ignoring it, pretending not to be home. Maybe they would just go away. But they wouldn't, she knew it.

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