vulnerable - Story 166477 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package, addressed to "Ms. Iris Hawthorne," lay discarded on the hallway floor. Clara had found it that morning. The air in her new flat always felt thick and stagnant, even with the windows open. She hadn't adjusted yet, and every noise, every shadow, seemed to amplify her apprehension. She shifted her weight from one foot to the other.

She should probably deliver it, but the thought filled her with a reluctance she couldn't explain. Her heart hammered in her chest. The unfamiliar scent of the previous owner's perfume lingered in the air, a phantom presence. She felt like an intruder in this space.

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