vulnerable - Story 166483 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car engine coughed and spluttered as Emily parked in front of the house, the once-vibrant paint now faded and peeling. This morning, she found she could barely manage the simple action of getting dressed. Her stomach churned, a cold knot tightening with each passing moment. A shudder rippled through her body.

The house had always been her sanctuary, a constant in a world of upheaval. Now, it was slated to disappear. She glanced at the packed boxes in the trunk, the remnants of her life, ready to be displaced once more. This house, the final anchor, was slipping away.

She felt a wave of nausea and scrambled out, the car door slamming behind her with a metallic clang. Her legs felt weak. She stumbled towards the front porch, the weathered wood groaning beneath her feet.

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