vulnerable - Story 166485 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just go, Dad," Liam had begged, his voice cracking. He felt a prickly heat behind his eyes and fought to maintain his composure. He had driven his father to the site, knowing he wouldn’t be able to stay. He just couldn't watch.

His father, a man who rarely showed emotion, had been uncharacteristically quiet. Now, he sat in the passenger seat, staring straight ahead at the house. He was hunched, his shoulders slumped. The demolition crew were getting ready.

Liam reached over and squeezed his father's hand. It was cold. He understood. His throat constricted as he watched his dad unbuckle his seatbelt, and slowly get out of the car. He could feel it too.

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