vulnerable - Story 166476 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the package, the name "Mr. Arthur Finch" mocking him. The weight of the world seemed to settle on Ethan's shoulders as he picked it up. He hadn’t felt this exposed in years. His apartment, usually a haven, now felt like a glass cage. The sound of the wind, rustling the leaves outside, was unnerving.

He considered the contents. Could it be anything dangerous? A prank? He knew he should deliver the package, but the thought of leaving his apartment, of interacting with anyone, filled him with dread. He set the box down, the wood floorboards groaning under the weight.

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