vulnerable - Story 166474 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun cast long shadows across the hallway, stretching and distorting everything. Liam picked at a loose thread on his worn jeans, his gaze fixed on the package. It lay on the floor, bearing the name "Mr. Thomas Harding." He felt a tremor in his hand as he reached for it.

He hadn’t unpacked anything yet. He hadn't even started. The walls of his new room felt too close, too confining. He felt a need to remain unseen, unheard. A sudden dryness seized his mouth. What if it was important? He had to do something about 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