vulnerable - Story 166480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun, filtering through the blinds, cast stripes of light and shadow across the package. It read: "Mr. Henry Hayes." Sarah stood in the doorway, staring at it. Her stomach churned. The new house felt like a mausoleum, filled with echoes and unseen eyes. She couldn't sleep at night.

The package felt heavy, a burden. She didn’t know the previous occupant. She didn't know anything about this place, about the people who lived here before. A chill ran through her, leaving her skin goose-bumped. The scent of old wood and something else, something metallic, filled the air. She felt utterly isolated.

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