vulnerable - Story 166503 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind whipped around Sarah, tearing at her clothes as she struggled to gather the fallen leaves. She hated this time of year, the approaching darkness a constant reminder of…things.

The dog, a boisterous Labrador, leaped over the fence and landed with a thud, scattering her painstakingly arranged piles. She gasped, dropping the rake. A wave of nausea washed over her.

It bounded toward her, slobbering enthusiastically. She wanted to yell, to scream, but the words stuck in her throat. She stood rooted to the spot, a small, fragile figure against the backdrop of the encroaching evening.

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