vulnerable - Story 166487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house was more than bricks and mortar. It was the backdrop to her entire life. As she stood watching, the sound of the machines seemed to amplify, to become the only sound. The world shrank to the destruction occurring before her. She felt a deep ache within her chest.

She had brought her dog, Buster. He seemed to sense her unease, and whined softly, rubbing against her leg. She bent down to stroke his fur, needing the comfort of his presence. His small, warm body was a grounding presence in the chaos.

The first wall crumbled, and a sob escaped. Her knees felt weak and unsteady.

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